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- '[Editor : You can just run the following code]
- 'Date: 05-22-92 (22:05)
- 'From: FRANK HAGAN
- 'Subj: Network Id's
- '------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ' ┌─────╢ MARTY KANE
- ' │Does anybody have a routine to check either the network node ID or the
- ' │card id on a NetBios based network, such as LanTastic?
-
- 'There is a couple of things in Ethan Winer's book BASIC Techniques
- 'and Utilities (Ziff Davis Press, ISBN 1-56276-008-4). First, an
- 'include file, REGTYPE.BI:
-
- TYPE RegType
- AX AS INTEGER
- BX AS INTEGER
- CX AS INTEGER
- DX AS INTEGER
- BP AS INTEGER
- SI AS INTEGER
- DI AS INTEGER
- Flags AS INTEGER
- DS AS INTEGER
- ES AS INTEGER
- END TYPE
-
- 'Then, a short program fragment with three functions:
-
- 'NETCHECK.BAS, identifies which network is running
-
- DEFINT A-Z
- ''$INCLUDE: 'regtype.bi'
-
- DIM SHARED Registers AS RegType
-
- DECLARE FUNCTION NWThere% ()
- DECLARE FUNCTION BVThere% ()
- DECLARE FUNCTION MSThere% ()
-
-
- 'NOTE: Do not change the order in which these
- ' tests are performed.
-
- PRINT "I think the network is ";
-
- IF NWThere% THEN
- PRINT "Novell Netware"
- ELSEIF BVThere% THEN
- PRINT "Banyon Vines"
- ELSEIF MSThere% THEN
- PRINT "Lantastic or other MS compatible"
- ELSE
- PRINT "Something I don't recognize, or no network"
- END IF
-
- FUNCTION BVThere% STATIC
- BVThere% = -1
- Registers.AX = &HD701
- CALL Interrupt(&H2F, Registers, Registers)
- AL = Registers.AX AND 255
- IF AL <> 0 THEN BVThere% = 0
- END FUNCTION
-
- FUNCTION MSThere% STATIC
- MSThere% = -1
- Registers.AX = &HB800
- CALL Interrupt(&H2F, Registers, Registers)
- AL = Registers.AX AND 255
- IF AL = 0 THEN MSThere% = 0
- END FUNCTION
-
- FUNCTION NWThere% STATIC
- NWThere% = -1
- Registers.AX = &H7A00
- CALL Interrupt(&H2F, Registers, Registers)
- AL = Registers.AX AND 255
- IF AL <> &HFF THEN NWThere% = 0
- END FUNCTION
- '----------------------------------------------------
- 'The book is a very good one; I heartily recommend it.
-