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- From: la@cc.uow.edu.au (Louie Athanasiadis)
- Subject: Re: Programming IPX with Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.234942.7823@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: University Of Wollongong
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:49:42 GMT
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- herzogs@ucs.orst.edu (Stephen Herzog) writes:
-
-
- >Greetings,
-
- >I am currently working on a windows application that will run under
- >Novell. I have a few calls in it to make use of IPX, and I am having a
- >bit of a problem. I have written my own toolkit for pascal that
- >seems to work well under DOS, but only some of the functions work for
- >windows. An example of this is the GetLocalTarget function that
- >is supposed to return the network address of an intermediate network ect.
-
- >To do this I set up a register with
- > BX = 02h
- > ES:SI = pointer -->DestinationAddr
- > ES:DI = pointer -->ImmediateAddr
- >
- > Do interrupt 7A
-
- > TransportTime = CX
- > result_code = AL
-
- >under dos, this works fine. Windows takes about a minute to return
- >a result of 250, or network unreachable.
-
- >I am guessing that there is something about windows that messes this up,
- >but I don't know what. The Open and Close sockett functions seem to be
- >ok, but this, and Send Packet seem to be crashing.
-
- >Could some kind soul tell me what I need to do to make this work, and/or
- >point me to information that will assist me. I would rather FTP some
- >documentation, however I will buy a book if necessary. All of the
- >above stuff for DOS I worked out of Charles G. Rose's book but I am
- >beginning to see that this book is quickly becomming outdated.
-
- >Any information would be greatly appreciated.
-
- >Stephen Herzog
- >Herzogs@ucs.orst.edu
-
-
- Use the Netware for windows DLL's
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