From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: can we do it in djgpp?
Date: 16 Jan 2001 18:26:07 GMT
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Dave Yuill <thalez2 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> does djgpp have support for socket connections? 

To some limited extent: yes. There's libsocket. The limitation is that you
only have socket connections if the DJGPP program runs in a Windows DOS
box. Raw DOS has no TCP/IP or other network protocol at all, so there's
nothing a DJGPP program could connnect to. 

> also is there any way to connect to an access database?

Probably not. Access is not really a database server, and it
definitely doesn't serve DOS applications. Its only server API I know
of would be ODBC, but that's only available to Windows apps.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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