From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Help :Network Programming
Date:	Fri, 05 Mar 1999 21:30:18 -0400
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Joao Campos wrote:

> > > I've been trying to do network programming in a Windows/Dos.
> > There is a BSD Socket library for DJGPP.  It is in the v2tk directory and it is
> > called lsck*.zip where "*" is the version number.

> If I'm not wrong, these libraries work only over Windows.
> Does the same happen in LibSocket?
> What about over DOS?
> Are there socket libraries we can use to network program using DJGPP?

    LibSocket only works under Win95 (and now Win98 with the latest release).  It
does NOT work in Pure DOS it works in a DOS box under Windows.  Doing it in DOS would
require getting drivers for all different kinds of network cards and various other
issues that I don't know about.

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