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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WinSock in Dos with WIn95
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:18:34 GMT
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Lo Dan Hedlund <markiv AT rangenet DOT com>:

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>I've written a BOOTP client.  It gets the DNS server's IP.  I've also
>writen a DNS client.  It currently only supports resolving host names to
>IP address, but it will support more functions later.  

Great! It would be nice if anyone has some information about the
Windows 95 registry. It seems that MS-DOS 7.0 reads the registry data
during startup. In that case it's possible to support non-BOOTP or
non-DHCP hosts and use the RAS settings for resolving addresses.

Bye.

-  Conceived through intercalation and juxtaposition -
proteus at worldaccess.nl, word player avant la lettre