Subj : Re: ipx
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Sun Aug 06 2000 11:38 pm

 DG>> Are you certain it's Win 3.x and not Windows for Workgroups? 3.x
 TL> Yes. Plain Windows 3.1. (I had WFW 3.11 later, but first had Compaq's
 TL> Win31)

 DG>> came with _no_ networking support at all - especially not for
 TL> Ooh yes it did... (Mine did, it's true 3.1)

You musta been sold a different version of Windows 3.1 than I was.

 DG>> Win 3.x still needed parts of the Novell package. W4W didn't -
 DG>> but
 TL> Really? :)

Yes, really.

 DG>> even when they were included with the WindoZe disks, they were
 DG>> directly licensed from Novell - IPX is Novell's proprietry
 DG>> protocol, and you simply can;t write a driver for it without
 DG>> asking them first
 TL> Okay, but you don't need to buy/download it anymore :)

You never did have to pay for them - useage of the client was assigned to 
anyone who bought the Novell server.

Not that that stopped lots of people who didn't own Netware from using the 
client for things like Doom etc. :-)

DaZZa

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