Subj : fantasy & folklore pt2
To   : David Drummond
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Fri Nov 23 2001 10:14 am

David Drummond wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 DD> Roy

 DD> 22 Nov 01 04:26, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Charles Angelich:

 CA>> PTSDOS and DRDOS both come with TCP/IP support. Time marches on 
 CA>> etc.

 RJT> Oh really?  I'm not familiar with PTSDOS,  but have heard of DRDOS,  
 RJT> do you need any specific version to get that capability?  What can 
 RJT> you do with the included TCP/IP support?  This could solve some 
 RJT> problems for me here,  if I can get it...

 DD> Roy, you can get TCP/IP for MS DOS too. It used to be on the
 DD> Microsoft site, not sure if it still is...

I got a hold of a couple of those m$ packages,  and they're pretty hairy.  You 
unzip one and it creates this whole huge directory tree,  and I'm not sure 
what's needed and what's "extra" (drivers etc.) in there,  nor was it at all 
clear as to how to make it work.  And assuming I did get it working,  I'd then 
have to figure out how to integrate it into my current setup,  what with QEMM's 
optimize routine and such.  More of a pain in the rear end than I wanted to 
mess with.

And besides,  going to DRDOS would let me get m$-free on this box,  too.  :-)

Closest I've gotten so far to getting the networking stuff going is to run a 
packet driver with the NCSA telnet package's ftp program.  That worked well for 
the most part,  but I had to back out of dv first to load the packet driver,  
and then restart dv,  then when I was done repeat the process and unload the 
driver.  If I didn't do that I'd end up with a lockup at some point later on.  
Maybe I should have optimized it,  or something,  I dunno.

OTOH,  maybe I'll get somewhere with dosemu,  instead.  :-)

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