Basic questions

[Hee So]

Hi,

I got the Tor client working on Windows for HTTP and IRC cuz
the applications had support for SOCKS.
I saw the documentation on tsock/socat. This solution is for Unix only. 
I've got a couple ssh clients on windows that don't support any
kind of proxy. Is there a solution for windows apps that
do not support SOCKS to use Tor?

When the Tor server is setup, is it supose to be a Directory Server
or an Onion Router? 

Is the Onion Router a SOCKS proxy, a modified SOCKS proxy to support
the Tor feature set, or something completely different?

Thanks,
/hee