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Posted by Nickolai Leschov on 1999-09-16

Thanks to Thomas Mathys <mathys_aka_scratchy@xxxxxxx.xx>
for help !! Thanks to others for toleration. :)

I want my DOS applications on different machines to
communicate with each other, maybe through UNIX or NT
Internet server. Is it possible? How?

4.1. I was told about CORBA - that it's so cool and it
   works on every platform. Can I use CORBA in DOS?


Please don't hesitate to answer to dated messages either.

Here I include my previous message, maybe
someone else will help me
Thanks.
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, I wrote:

> 
> Hello there!
> 
>    Now I've got a question only you real
> coders might answer: What are possibilities
> of programming for DOS? Or, to state it
> other way, what is good old DOS still good
> for?
>    Having visited Assembly'99 now I see
> that one can still make amazing realtime
> 2D/3D graphics with sound in DOS, make
> use of dos extenders and it will run in
> Windows 9x and not crash the whole system!
> (still I wonder how can protected mode app
> run in Windows?)
>    But how about networking? Windows has got
> very convenient model of drivers here so that
> every app that wants to work with the Net
> doesn't need to deal with hardware and the
> whole protocol stack itself. As far as I
> know if one wants to do networking in DOS,
> (i.e. make program that communicates through
> Internet with others of its kind)
> he needs to build up the whole stuff from
> scratch, from hardware up which seems
> impossible (you can't do Windows, can you?)
>    So my questions are: 
> 
> 1. How can I do networking in DOS?
>    (if I can at all) Which software/libraries
>    can help? (if any)
> 2. What is the best compiler for DOS? I love
>    my Borland C++ 3.1, the last one for DOS
>    but maybe it's not the best
> 3. What DOS extenders are good (convenient
>    and work okay in Windows)
> 
> I would really appreciate answer on any of
> these questions..
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> Nickolai
> mailto:terror@xxxx.xx
> http://nickolai.iscool.net
> 
> 
> P.S. I'm considering making serious project in
>      DOS (well, at least serious for me :) )
>      and I want to check all possibilities and
>      see whether I can manage it (yeah!) or I
>      need to use another platform (*sob*)
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 

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