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- From: faye@fe-line.demon.co.uk (Faye Pearson)
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- Subject: Re: DOS compiler with socket support???
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:44:05 GMT
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- Kevin Burton <kburto1@umbc.edu> wrote:
-
- >I am looking for a C/C++ DOS compiler that has socket support for
- >AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM sockets. If anyone can offer any suggestions I
- >would be very appreciative.
-
- I was looking for this recently, if you want to use DOS TCPIP then you
- can use a library called wattcp, can't remember where I found it, but
- it should be archie'able.
-
- I think it will work with most compilers (there are several versions
- in a directory) but the version I tried was written for Borland C or
- Turbo C with Turbo Assembler.
-
- djgpp which is a freeware DOS c/c++ compiler may come with a socket
- library, but I'm not sure about that.
-
- EMX which is also a port of gcc (OS/2) comes with a socket library
- which is compatible with IBM TCP/IP. - it can compile code for DOS but
- I don't think the calls would work for anything other than IBM's
- TCP/IP.
-
- I cannot comment on whether wattcp will work for you. It does not
- work with Windows Sockets. - If anyone knows of a purely DOS (ie can
- be compiled without the New EXE header) library which can interface
- with WinSock(preferably for Borland) I'd be grateful. I've seen
- something about the TCPIP VxD interface but I haven't seen anything
- which uses it. - does anyone know how to access a VxD from a DOS
- compiled program? The documentation for the VxD TCPIP interface for
- Winsock is available on the net, along with header files - I think it
- was either vxdtcp or tcpvxd (an archie case insensitive substring
- search would certainly find it.)
-
-
- Faye
-