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- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet & WINPKT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.123803.58690@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 12:38:03 MDT
- References: <1992Sep4.184222.280@news.uiowa.edu> <1992Sep07.160606.4769@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1992Sep07.160606.4769@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk (John Franks) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep4.184222.280@news.uiowa.edu> boyken@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken) writes:
- >>I've set up a number of PCs with NCSA Telnet and Windows, using WINPKT.
- >>For the packet driver, I always use 0x62 for the packet interrupt, then use
- >>
- >> winpkt 0x60 0x62
- >>
- >>to start WINPKT. WINPKT says that it finds the packet driver and that the
- >>new interrupt is 0x60. I configure the config.tel thus:
- > ... etc.
- >
- > I could be very wrong (I'm currently setting something up along these lines -
- > please tell me if I am!) but I thought winpkt was only for windows programs
- > and that DOS ones running under windows used the standard pktdrv interface -
- > and you just don't run more than one on each pktdrv.
- >
- > Please, please reassure me!
- >
- >
- > John Franks I will arise and go now, for always night and day
- > ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
- > & jmf14@phx.cam.ac.uk While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavments grey,
- > from Cambridge only I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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- John,
- I reassure you that you are "very wrong" on this one. Winpkt runs at
- DOS level (outside of Windows) and it's purpose in life is to manage the
- delivery of fresh packets to the correct virtual machine. It uses a standard
- Packet Driver interface at top and bottom. It has nothing to do with full
- Windows apps, unless of course those apps make regular Packet Driver calls.
- Full Windows apps typically have their own DLL et al to get into/out of
- protected mode to an externally resident protocol stack. Winpkt is for
- DOS programs.
- Joe D.
-