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- From: ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Getting DOS TCP/IP software to work with NT
- Message-ID: <EBROWN.92Nov5161748@bud_light.kodak.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 21:17:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.031150.12271@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Reply-To: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
- Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
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- In-reply-to: ushomirs@spot.Colorado.EDU's message of 5 Nov 92 03:11:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.031150.12271@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> ushomirs@spot.Colorado.EDU (USHOMIRSKIY GRIGORIY) writes:
-
- I remeber reading here that Win NT's network drivers are similar to NDIS. In
- this case it seems to be easy to get any dos TCP/IP software that uses packet
- drivers or NDIS to work with NT. Since the above programs rely on a packet
- driver (or NDIS driver) to communicate with the ethernet board and if NT
- does provide NDIS services to DOS VDM's then it probably would not mind
- the program (say QVT/NET or an X server) to write to the packet driver.
- There is a program called dis_pkt that is supposed to provide a packet driver
- interface to an NDIS driver, so QVT/NET should work (it just needs a packet
- driver).
-
- Is this just a lot of wishful thinking or has anyone tried it?
- I don't have any NDIS software and am having trouble tracking down dis_pkt
- (my archie client is having problems) so I haven't tried this yet.
-
- It would be interesting to know what kind of network services does NT
- provide to programs in a DOS VDM or Win-16 sybsystem?
-
- Greg.
-
- I was under the impression that Microsoft and a couple other vendors
- (Sun and FTP Software notably) had come up with the Windows Socket
- specification and that that was to be the new TCP/IP standard interface
- rather than packet drivers. NT does support WinSock and I have written
- programs using WinSock for NT. I believe the WinSock specification is
- available for ftp from uunet (though I'm not positive).
-
- I was suprised not to see WinSock bundled with Windows for Workgroups
- though I hear MS may release it in early 1993.
-
- If NT plans to support packet programs via this dis_pkt, I'd be very
- interested in knowing more. I never heard of 'dis_pkt' before.
-
- Eric.
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