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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:46:46 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Many DJGPP programs cause network traffic???
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At 02:55 PM 2/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>    I am running Win95 with a Modem.  I stubled across something today.  I
>noticed that sometimes, some programs compiled under DJGPP would take a
second
>[literally 1 or 2 seconds] to start.  Examples are "Rhide" 1.4 and the "ls"
>command that comes with the DOS version of BASH.  I realized this only
happens
>when I am connected to the internet, and I also noticed that my "Bytes
>recieved" and "Bytes sent" jump whenever I run these programs.  "ls" seems to
>send ~ 350bytes and recieve ~ 250bytes consistantly.  Rhide send about
>700bytes.  Does anyone know what is being sent, how I could find out what is
>being send, for what reason it is being sent, or how I can stop it?  [Other
>than hanging up my modem]

That's damned strange.
Try running netstat at the same time you run rhide... maybe by launching
them from a batch file:

start rhide 
REM asynchronous launch in W9x.
netstat

See what port is being talked out of, and what host is being contacted.
Then maybe run a packet sniffer and see what the devil is being sent.
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