From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: Changes to winsup-980812
20 Aug 1998 03:27:10 -0700
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To: Tim Newsham <newsham AT lava DOT net>
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Tim Newsham wrote:

> > - I wanted to port Sun RPC, so I fell over some socket ioctl()
> >   commands, which are not present in Cygwin32. Added SIOCGIFADDR,
> >   SIOCGIFBRDADDR and SIOCGIFNETMASK. Now read the registry for
> >   Win NT network configuration.
> >   Only Windows NT supports this!
>
> This can also be done for win95.  I have code for NT and for 95 that
> reads the tcp/ip config information from the registry for both static
> and dhcp assigned addresses.  It is not integrated into cygwin, I just
> did it as proof of concept (I intended to fold it into cygwin, but I'm
> busy with so many other things, I havent gotten around to it).
>
> If anyone is interested in the code, let me know.
>
> > Best regards
> > Corinna
>
>                                        Tim N.


Hello Tim,

yes, I'm interested in the registry entries of W95, so I can integrate
them into my changes. I don't have W95, so I don't know, how to do it.
However, my version of the NT function already read the DHCP entries,
if they exist and are in use.

Corinna