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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:11:42 -0800
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From: Bud <caburnham AT myexcel DOT com>
Subject: Re: Arachne Web browser for DOS
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>It does and the answer is no as one can't have two TCP/IP stacks,
>at least not sharing the same IP address.
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>If one were to write a TCP/IP client, say FTP, with built-in
>TCP/IP, it couldn't simultaneous share the packet driver with Arachne's
>TCP/IP.  Arachne and an FTP client could on the other hand share
>a TCP/IP stack.  MS didn't define a standard TCP/IP interface for
>DOS as it did with WinSock for Windows.

This is a very interesting conversation.  I am working on porting Arachne 
to the Datalight TCP/IP Stack, SOCKETS.  SOCKETS is a TSR TCP/IP stack and 
has a WINSOCKv2 compatible interface.

What has been said about Arachne utilizing WATTCP and the issues behind 
writing TCP/IP applications with WATTCP are true.

Hopefully, I will be able to post some new news here soon about my progress 
in porting Arachne.

Bud

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