Subj : Re: Turbo Pascal/C TCPIP Library
To : fusion
From : Pilotcab
Date : Wed Sep 14 2022 03:56 pm
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 lazarus and what-not to write the programs im
fu> There are a few. Depends on what you mean by native. Packet drivers for several 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 nutjobs that like running dos on period hardware :D
fu> That said DOS in general never came with that functionality so you'd be expecting 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 about 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
