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- From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: TCPIP DLLs for Windows: a summary
- Message-ID: <715355419.26604@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:50:19 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 148
-
- In comp.os.ms-windows.misc I wrote:
-
- >Does anyone out there know of a product which gives a TCP transport to
- >Windows 3.1 apps (via a DLL hopefully) which (even more hopefully) conforms
- >to the winsock protocol?
-
- I got some replies (thanks to everyone who replied). The answer appears to be:
-
- Yes, there are lots with DLLs. No, there are not (many) which are winsock
- compliant. Briefly, the position is that Novell Workplace for DOS,
- NetManage Chameleon, FTP (who sell a lot of networking stuff for PCs), and
- PC NFS V4.0, all are good products supplying DLLs.
-
- The details:
-
- From leffler@vela.acs.oakland.edu:
- >Netmange uses dll's. The TCP/Ip portion appears to be pretty good. You
- >may want to test some of the other modules before implementing. (i.e.
- >Their nfs doesn't do locking very well).
-
- From andyy@vision.co.uk:
- >Prices for ftp
- >
- >Single user:
- >
- >Kernel Only kernel+utils kernel+utils+interdrive
- >
- >160 330 380
- >
- >Site-license:
- >
- >People (kernel only) (kernel+utils) (kernel+utils+interdrive)
- > each each each
- >
- >20-49 110 165 210
- >50-99 94 132 170
- >100-149 82 120 155
- >150-999 69 100 130
- >1000+ 55 80 107
-
- From pholditc@uk03.bull.co.uk:
- >I currently use two:
- >
- >1) Novell LAN Workplace for DOS.
- > This is a DOS TCP-IP package which contains full support for Windows
- > ( including a VxD for the comms ) and has proved to be reliable in most
- > circumstances. The LAN Workplace for DOS toolkit contains development
- > kit to build Windows apps that use sockets.
- >
- >2) 3com TCP with DPA.
- > This is 3coms DOS TCP-IP package. It contains no VxD so sockets
- > applications running under Windows don't in my experience coexist
- > with Windows sockets apps very happily, but the development kit does
- > contain libraries, headers etc to allow sockets apps to be written
- > under Windows.
- >
- >On the down side, neither package conforms to the WinSock standard.
-
- From backman@ftp.com Tue Aug 18 12:10:32 0400 1992
- >I'm duping this on to <info@ftp.com>. There is a programmers interface
- >to a number of Windows DLL's; on e of which will soon be the infamous
- >WinsockAPI DLL. As to UK price; they can do better on this mailing list..
-
- From doc@magna.com Tue Aug 18 12:38:30 0400 1992
- >Unfortunately, WinSock API is too new to find many delivering commercial
- >products... Microsoft LanManager 2.1 with MS-TCP 1.0 does, provided you
- >get the wsockets.dll from their BBS...
- >
- >Now for general .DLL TCP support, Chameleon from Netmanage, Inc. is
- >probably the most Windows oriented provider. Others provide .DLL's for
- >things like the sockets library, but the app's are all .exe's as are
- >the base drivers... FTP's PC-TCP, Sun's PC-NFS (ver 4.0), 3Com TCP 2.0,
- >Beame & Whiteside's BW-NFS (recent release), *all* have .DLL based
- >support for at least the sockets library.
-
- >> Where can I find the specs for WinSockAPI???
- >
- > One location you can anonymously ftp to is vax.ftp.com; there is
- > a text file, postscript version, winsockapi mail-list archive and
- > other goodies in /pub/winsockapi.
-
- From schoen@tsfsrv.mitre.org
- >Yes, Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS provides a TCP/IP stack, a Windows DLL
- >that you can use for your applications, and several other goodies; however,
- >you need to be on a LAN running Novell Netware. If that's not a problem,
- >we`ve been using this product to develop applications for Windows. They
- >provide a DLL called WLIBSOCK that I believe is conformant to the winsock
- >protocol.
-
- From J.Hayward@utexas.edu Wed Aug 19 18:53:14 0500 1992
- >Netmanage, inc. has a product called Chameleon and Newt. Newt is
- >the developement kit, it's fully DLL (no TSRs), and supports winsock.
-
- From steven@unipalm.co.uk Fri Aug 21 16:20:25 BST 1992
- >FTP's PC/TCP includes VXD and .DLLs that work fine in Windows 3.1. You still
- >have to load a DOS Kernel but this takes up 40k + EMS. The 2.1 Dev Kit will
- >have the full Winsock API in it. Any changes necessary to bring the 2.1 DLLs
- >now shipping into line with this will be a free upgrade.
-
- From barrett@scr601.sinet.slb.com Mon Aug 24 14:08:41 1992
- >I think I FTP software's TCP/IP for PC has a DLL that can be used to hook into
- >from Win3.1
-
- From: lrh@ftp.com (Leonard Heinrich)
- >For full information on our products includling the Dev Kit, contact our
- >UK distributor:
- >
- > Unipalm Ltd 44-223-420-002
- >
- >In the current release of the DEV Kit. Version 2.05, you can program an
- >application for Windows using our Native Mode Libraries and FTP's
- >PCTCPAPI.DLL. If you desire to use an interface to sockets, then our upcoming
- >2.1 Dev Kit (going to Beta next month), will offer WINSOCK.API which is a
- >Windows sockets interface.
-
- From jsl@netmanage.com Mon Aug 31 13:19:57 PDT 1992
- >There is another significant TCP/IP for Windows product that you may not be
- >aware of. It is called Chameleon and ChameleonNFS from NetManage of Cupertino,
- >California. Why is it different?
- >
- >The Chameleon product is built with a 100% Windows DLL and provides a robust
- >implementation that is rich with utilities.
- >
- >For example, in addition to the standard Telnet (peer to peer), FTP (peer to peer),
- >Mail, and Ping programs you'd expect, Chameleon also contains an IP router, a
- >domain name server and a SLIP connection; all this and Chameleon takes up only
- >6k in RAM memory--whether there is 1 session or 64! That's alot of functionality in
- >Chameleon!
- >
- >Further, ChameleonNFS has all the functionality of Chameleon but also adds NFS
- >Client AND SERVER functionalities as well as LPR printing capability.
- >
- >NetManage also offers a product that provides NetWare concurrency with
- >Chameleon as well. Further, we provide a sockets DLL development kit and an
- >RPC development kit.
- >
- >If you get a chance, there is a ChameleonNFS product review in the August 24
- >issue of PC-User UK. You'll notice that our distributor listed there is Specif(ix) in
- >Derbys--the contact person is Phil Smith at 629-732689 (fax) or 629-732982 (tel).
-
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