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Cannot Obtain Information from Microsoft Chat Clients

Article ID: 170629

Article Last Modified on 6/28/2004

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Some chat programs may be unable to obtain the client version, user information, or Internet Protocol (IP) address of another chat program.

This is a limitation of the Chatsock.dll file included with Microsoft Chat. This behavior is known to occur with the Pirch32 client.

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