From: jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James MacLean) Subject: Re: Novell IPX under DOS emulator? Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 01:10:25 GMT
In article <729119287snx@eyrie.demon.co.uk> df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
>From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus)
>Subject: Re: Novell IPX under DOS emulator?
>Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 14:08:07 +0000
>In article <1kumsdINN2bm@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> J.R.Jagger@sheffield-hallam.ac.uk writes:
>> Hi peeps,
>> I doubt it can, but is the DOS emulator up to running
>> Novell IPX, or any other network software? If it can
>> it opens some great possibilities here?
>
>Ok you asked for it,
>
> Yes.. horrible idea here, we provide the DOS emulator with a
>packet driver interface which will access the network card through the
>normal OS calls. Then you run PKTIPX.
>
> DF
>--
>Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
Yes, this would be great, even this would allow pdether, IPXODI
stacks. Then the DOS session could use all the DOS TCP/IP softwre.
JES
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