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- From: eengelke@sail.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: tcp-ip library for WINDOWS/DOS (Berkeley compatible)
- Message-ID: <BtJy7I.HBL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: tcp-ip, rpc, DOS, Windows.
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Aug24.125112.14506@info.ucl.ac.be>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:33:16 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- > vijghen@fynu3.fynu.ucl.ac.be (Philippe Vijghen) writes:
- >
- > Could anybody out there give me some information about tcp-ip and
- >rpc libraries for WINDOWS/DOS programming?
- >
- > I have a dwonloaded copy of wattcp from the university of Waterloo.
- >Unfortunatly, this package is not compatible with the Berkeley BSD interface.
- >We want to write code portable to our UNIX machines...
- >
-
- I hate to tell you this, but even the nicest BSD emulation libraries
- lack a lot of the BSD feel which you would want if you expect total
- BSD compatibility. The developers had to go to great lengths to
- simulate the BSD environment because they had to do it all on top
- of little old DOS, and that is quite a different beast.
-
- Novell LWP includes a nice BSD 4.2 Windows emulation library. FTP is just
- offerring a new release, so I expect they added Windows support, ask
- at info@ftp.com. B&W's otherwise attractive product is lacking BSD 4.2
- emulation in either DOS or Windows, I immagine their market niche is
- more toward production environments, something they do very well.
-
- Under LAN manager environments, HP ARPA services offers good Windows
- BSD emulation, but it's rarly used outside the LanMan environment.
-
- I think the first three I mentioned will all be supporting WinSock
- at some time, and they are quite widely used. But don't wait for
- products not yet available, it can be discouraging. Your best bet
- is to develop for a specific vendor's TCP and then adapt it as
- WinSock becomes available and during the refining process as various
- implementations resolve small compatibility problems.
-
-
- > I have got some information from NetManage. Their package looks quite
- >interesting although I think it is quite expensive (around $2000).
- >
-
- Sorry, I've had no experience with developing for NetManage or Distinct.
- And I don't remember how Sun's PC-NFS system copes with Windows.
-
- Erick
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- Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo TCP Architect erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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