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- From: trevorl@ise.canberra.edu.au (Trevor Lawrence)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Getting DOS TCP/IP software to work with NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.215621.29607@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 21:56:21 GMT
- References: Newsgroups: <1992Nov5.031150.12271@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: trevorl@ise.canberra.edu.au (Trevor Lawrence)
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- Organization: Info. Sci. and Eng., University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
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- Ushomirskiy Gigory 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.
- >
-
- Since QVT/NET is a Win16 program it doesn't run in a standard DOS VDM anyway.
- In which case you might have trouble getting the Dis_Pkt TSR loaded.
-
- The QVT/NET people recently told me they were working on producing a WinSock
- API compatible version, and were also installing a machine to load NT to
- work on an NT version as well.
-