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+This module is just a translation of the C socket.h file. Unlike the old
+mechanism of requiring a translated socket.ph file, this uses the h2xs program
+(see the Perl source distribution) and your native C compiler. This means
+that it has a far more likely chance of getting the numbers right. This includes
+all of the commonly used pound-defines like AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, etc.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Socket/