Re: Re: Turbo Pascal/C TCPIP Library
By: fusion to Pilotcab on Wed Sep 14 2022 09:49:00
Pi>> Is there a "native" tcpip library for turbo pascal? I know i could use laz
arus and what-not to write the programs im
fu> There are a few. Depends on what you mean by native. Packet drivers for sev
eral network cards of the era are available, as
fu> well the guy who made Trumpet Winsock back in the Windows 3 days also made
a socket library you
fu> could use. The documentation is pretty good if you know a little assembly.
People seem to like mTCP as well.
yea i was afraid of that. i wonder if there's any way to do it with the windows
tcp stack. mTCP works great on a dos machine. and iguess i'm one of those nutjob
s that like running dos on period hardware :D
fu> That said DOS in general never came with that functionality so you'd be exp
ecting a very limited group to actually configure
fu> everything to use what you wrote (and nobody on Windows without VirtualBox)
.
i'm running synchro on a windows nt machine just cus i can :D I was wondering ab
out writing "DOS" door. i've written a number of linux sided things, but want to
cover both and i know absolutely zero java in any form :D
charlie
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