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From: Rolf Campbell <moscoop AT NortelNetworks DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:01:00 -0500
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Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:54:07 GMT, Endlisnis wrote:
> > DOS doesn't support networking...
> LSL
> NE2000
> IPXODI
> VLM
> F:
> LOGIN
>
> Six commands you need to know if you want to connect to a NetWare IPX
> server. And yes, it supports TCP/IP networking too, although I can't
> get that part working yet. :(
>
> So, yes, DOS supports networking.

    These are programs written for DOS that support networking.  What I
said was that DOS doesn't support networking, not that you couldn't
write a program for DOS that used networking.  Using your logic, I could
say that DOS supports running programs in a multi-tasking Linux manner,
because there are DOS loaders for Linux available.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)



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