X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Michal H. Tyc" Organization: BTTR Software Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:42:20 +0100 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.73;GPL To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Arachne Web browser for DOS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Hi Matthias, Hi all, On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:29:56 +0100, Matthias Paul wrote: > In regard to packet drivers, I seem to remember, there was > a special packet driver (like PKTMUX or MUXPKT?) to address > this problem (originally for use with Windows 3.0), wasn't it? > But I have to admit, that it's eons ago, that I have used > packet drivers, so I guess, others will have much fresher > memory in regard to the details here. Anyone? This packet driver multiplexor is called PKTMUX and its documentation says that it works with Windows 3 and with DESQView. I tried once to use it under the DR-DOS multitasker, but without success. Maybe someone else had better luck? > For the multitasker you may have to add a line to the [Drivers] > section of TASKMGR.INI in order to load the corresponding > virtual device driver, for example a line like: > vxd=c:\drdos.703\nwclient\vipx.386 In case it is unclear for anyone, the above virtual device driver is for Netware IPX protocol (IPXODI.COM, included in 'full' DR-DOS version with Personal Netware), > vxd=c:\drdos.703\nwclient\vtcpip.386 this one is for LAN Workplace for DOS TCP/IP protocol (and isn't included in DR-DOS), > vxd=c:\drdos.703\nwclient\vncomx.386 and this is for NCOMX.COM serial port PPP/SLIP ODI driver (included in DR-Webspyder). A poor man's approach to using packet drivers in a multitasking environment may be the '-w' switch of the packet driver program, which I never tried. I have a copy of PKTMUX if anyone wants to try it and cannot find it anywhere. Hope this helps, Michal