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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:49:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Gary Welles <gary AT wellesway DOT com>
To: OpenDos <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Arachne Web browser for DOS
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Ben A L Jemmett writes:

> The Caldera WebSpyder product (based around Arachne and the NetWare stack)
> shipped with a packet driver shim for the ODI stack if memory serves -- after
> loading LSL and the MLID (possible IPXODI was required too, but since you load
> that anyway it'll be fine), this driver (PKT2ODI.COM I think) loaded as a
> packet driver that talked to the MLID.  This is going from hazy memories, but
> if you could find a copy of that floating around it might work.

Memory isn't much better here and WebSpyder has been removed, but
I did located the .bat file I used to unload it's stack.
Reversing it's order would stack up like so:

     c:\nwclient\LSL.com
     c:\nwclient\NCOMX.com
     c:\nwclient\NWREMOTE.com
     c:\nwclient\PKT2ODI.exe

They remain in my nwclient directory along with the relevant .cfg
file and I'd be happy to .zip them off to Leonard Erickson.

MAJOR PROBLEM: There is no DOS TCP/IP standard, so clients are
stack specific or everything is more or less rolled into one big
app like BITCOM. Thus no expectation the above stack would work
with DOS anything other than WebSypder.  He'd probably need
Novell's LAN Workplace and clients as well.

-- Gary Welles

PKT2ODI R1.00    Packet Driver to ODI Converter
Copyright (c) 1997 Caldera, Inc.  All rights reserved.

PKT2ODI [/I:hh] [/B:dd] [/U]
  /I:hh Install at int. vector hh (hex); default 0x69
  /B:dd Use MLID board dd (decimal); default 1
  /U    Remove PKT2ODI from memory

Novell/Caldera NWREMOTE Stack  v3.14 (950830)
(C) Copyright 1995 Novell, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Available command line options:
   NWREMOTE    -Installs the stack
   NWREMOTE S  -Shows resident stacks in memory
   NWREMOTE U  -Unloads resident stack from memory
   NWREMOTE V  -Verbose Mode: Displays NESL registrations
   NWREMOTE ?  -Displays this help screen

Novell COM1/COM2 MLID  v3.13 (950825)
(C) Copyright 1991 - 1995 Novell, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Available command line options:
   NCOMX    -Installs the LAN driver
   NCOMX S  -Shows resident LAN drivers in memory
   NCOMX U  -Unloads resident LAN driver from memory
   NCOMX ?  -Displays this help screen