From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: pcap (was 'porting PCI card driver from NT to DOS')
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:57:38 +0100
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Hello.

deckerben wrote:
[snip]
> I am not sure what you mean. A DJGPP-DOS TSR that can call routines from a
> Windows DLL?? A networking-card specific device driver? More windows
> programming?
[snip]

Windows NT/2000/XP support Virtual DOS Devices (VDD), which are basically
DLLs. They allow you to provide services to DOS programs running under Windows
NT/2000/XP. The long filename extension for Windows NT/etc. is a VDD.

Someone could write a VDD to provide the standard packet driver interface to
programs running in DOS boxes under Windows NT/etc.

It might be simpler to write a VDD for the TCP ABI specification, since that
is a higher-level interface than packet drivers. See the link here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsck/lsck_lnk.htm

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]