On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:51:30 -0500
Wendy J Bossons <wboss...@mit.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I recently completed a project to integrate virus scanning features
> into an application, which uses the clamav daemon.
> 
> We are completing our documentation. I'm a little confused about the
> feature set between the unix version and the windows version. I have
> only tested using the unix version of ClamAV.

Best thing to do is to test your application on windows.
Windows is not a POSIX compatible platform, so how can you know if your
application would work on it without testing?

> Does the Windows
> version also offer the option to run the daemon from the command
> line, or is it really just a desktop application? I have to know in
> order to be accurate in our claims about the feature set.

See here for an explanation:
http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-in-name.html

Note that the ClamAV win32 binaries only support communicating via TCP
socket, since Windows doesn't have unix domain sockets (only named
pipes).

Best regards,
--Edwin
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