Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 21:50:53 GMT
From: Iain AT medic DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Iain Reid)
Reply-To: Iain AT medic DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: DJGPP + TCP/IP + text/graphics library
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I'm starting to look into using djgpp as a base for some (personal)
medical utilities and would be grateful for anyone thoughts on the
following areas:

1. TCP/IP connectivity is highly desirable. Has anyone ported /
   written a TCP/IP library for djgpp? As far as I can see from the
   likes of ka9q and wattcp the only difficult bit would be getting a
   real mode packet driver to call a protected mode packet handling
   function (effectively interrupt driven comms).

2. I confess to being a big fan of Turbovision by Borland. Ages ago
   there were a few discrete enquiries about the legality of porting
   it to djgpp. Did anyone ever port this or any other reasonable
   text mode library e.g. Dflat (freeware)?

3. Tying 1 and 2 together, can you forsee any major difficulties with
   using djgpp as a base for a WWW (or similar memory hungry) client?
   If not, is anyone else interested in getting tcp/ip apps working with
   djgpp?

Regards,
       Iain Reid
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