- Pure MS-DOS 6.22 TCP/IP
- Posted by Joe Caverly on September 3rd, 2005
Hi,
Using the instructions from http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/doscltcp.htm
I have successfully setup an MS-DOS 6.22 system with TCP/IP and a
network card. I can PING various Internet web sites with no problem.
I would like to do more than PING.
Under Win98SE, I have used excellent freeware console utilities such
as GRABURL.EXE to download web pages from the console, and HTMSTRIP.EXE
to convert the HTML code to plain text.
I would like to know if there are any 16-bit equivalents to these
32-bit utilities, which I can use with the MS-DOS 6.22 TCP/IP.
Lacking this, does anyone know of documentation that outlines what
Interrupts to call so as to access the MS-DOS 6.22 TCP/IP from Turbo
Pascal 7.0 for DOS, MS-COBOL 4.5 for DOS, or QuickBASIC 4.5 for DOS? I
have googled, but could not find any Interrupt calls for MS-DOS 6.22
TCP/IP specifically. Lots of info on other TCP/IP stacks for DOS, but
none for the MS-DOS 6.22 TCP/IP stack.
Also, if anyone knows of any 16-bit DOS programs that use the MS-DOS
6.22 TCP/IP, such as email, ftp, web browsers, etc., please pass this
along.
Note that I have tried Arachne, but it only works with modems, not
network cards. New Deal Office also only works with modems, but it is
not freeware.
Thanks,
Joe
- Posted by Gabriele Neukam on September 3rd, 2005
On that special day, Joe Caverly, (jlcaverlyca@yahoo.ca) said...
Not even in
http://users.pandora.be/mydotcom/lib...k/dostcpip.htm ? (sorry
for the blank space)
I think it looks interesting
Gabriele Neukam
Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de
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- Posted by Laurent Herve on September 3rd, 2005
"Joe Caverly" <jlcaverlyca@yahoo.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
1125763840.888408.269070@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com
<snipe>
The Arachne coming with UBCD 3.xx use my realtek 8139 card
without even asking me...btw arachne used 3com cards in the past,
i guess that where internet cards and not modems, i'm rather sure
about that. So it is not hopeless 
laurent
- Posted by Daniel Mandic on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote:
Windows 3.11WfW/95/98/98SE/ME. It´s DOS, and you have all TCP/IP easy
and comfortable via Windows. Especially ME should do well for paranoide
internet-user.
The best IMO for DOS, is Novell Netware.
Kind Regards,
Daniel Mandic
- Posted by Daniel Mandic on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote:
Look at PTS-DOS 2000. This should have anything for internetting. It´s
not free but one of the best DOS. Very fast and capable....
Best Regards,
Daniel Mandic
- Posted by Bjorn Simonsen on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote in
<1125763840.888408.269070@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>:
have you googled usenet posts <http://groups.google.com/> ,
fx you could try
<http://groups.google.com/groups?&num=100&q=interrupts+%2A+%22tcp+ip%22+%28m s-dos+OR+msdos%29>
Good luck!
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
- Posted by Dick Kistler on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote:
To do this you need Windows for Workgroups. You don't have enough real
memory left to
run a web browser. This is why WFWG was originated. The DOS networking was
not able
to run any programs for internet access after it was loaded.
WRONG! I use Arachne and a packet driver for my network card to accesss the
internet thru my router to my cable modem. Likely your NIC manufacturer has
a packet driver which will work with Arachne. If not, try here:
http://www.crynwr.com/. Arachne seems to have trouble using DCHP, so you
will have to use a fixed IP address, but I haven't had any problem doing
this.
Hope this helps.
Dick Kistler
- Posted by CPA on September 4th, 2005
On 3 Sep 2005 09:10:40 -0700, "Joe Caverly" <jlcaverlyca@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
Check out my TECH website for more TCP/IP DOS options and software.
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http://www.devedia.com/dosghost/
arts:
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http://www.devedia.com/dosghost/dos/samples.asp
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- Posted by Bjorn Simonsen on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote in
<1125763840.888408.269070@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>:
See about Get-www/HTGET here;
<http://www.inti.be/hammer/download.htm>.
See also about NETBAS there, and here;
<http://www.inti.be/hammer/revobild.htm>.
More places to look:
<http://f.webring.com/hub?ring=dosnet>
<http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/z_more.htm>
<http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/softlib1.htm>
<http://www.qsl.net/ve3lgs/index.html>
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
- Posted by Morten Skarstad on September 4th, 2005
Joe Caverly wrote:
I'm not sure excactly what you want to achieve with your disk, but I think
you should have a look at Bart's modular boot disk
(http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/modboot/). I have made a disk from here that
boots to MS-DOS, and gives me stuff like TCP/IP, SMB (Windows file sharing)
support and an SSH client. Excellent for installing and maintaing computers
in a networked environment, especially considering I can fit it all into one
single 1.44 MB floppy.
- Posted by REM on September 4th, 2005
Very nice! Thanks for mentioning this.
- Posted by B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson on September 4th, 2005
On 3 Sep 2005 09:10:40 -0700, Joe Caverly wrote:
[DOS Networking]
I see... ;-)
You could try if they run with WinEm:
http://www.sylpher.com/dosuser/dosutils.htm
But if there are DOS alternatives available (like for converting
*.html to plain text) you'll most possibly be better off with them.
It's normally not done via DOS interrupts. Although you'll find some
interrupts regarding to TCP/IP inside Ralf Brown's interrupt list:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu...WWW/files.html
these are mostly 'third party' (like Novell Netware, FTP Software).
There are also interrupts for other networking protocols/layers,
like 0x5C for NetBIOS. The communication with the TCP/IP stack of
the MS Networking Client is usually done by Sockets. There was a
special TCP-SDK available by Microsoft which provided the necessary
header files, libraries, and some samples and documentation.
Last time I saw it on Disk 1 of the MSDN subscription of July 1994.
As far as I know it never was freely available. Maybe you try another
TCP library like WATTCP:
http://www.wattcp.com
There are already some posts on this topic. And it is not easy for me
to recommend you some programs, because it's been a while since I
last set up a DOS network. Maybe you look here (presented without a
particular order):
http://www.tennyo.org/martin/software.html
http://sshdos.sourceforge.net
http://jaapvanlelieveld.xs4all.nl/program.htm
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/#viewhtml
http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/programs.html
Some are not - strictly spoken - network tools, but help you view *.html
documents (for instance). Just have a look at them.
For general reference you might want to check these sites:
http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FAQs/dos-apps.html
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/trumpet
HTH.
BeAr
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- Posted by Joe Caverly on September 5th, 2005
Dick Kistler wrote:
Hi,
As I have an Intel PRO 10/100 NIC, I downloaded the file E100B11B.ZIP
from the site you suggested.
I ran the E100BPKT.COM file with the 0x60 argument, and it loaded
with no errors. I then ran the Arachne Setup, it detected the packet
driver, and I can now surf the web from DOS.
Using the E100BPKT.COM file, I don't have to load any network drivers
either. The .ZIP file also included much of the assembler source code.
BTW, I got rid of the MS-DOS 6.22, and installed Novell DOS 7. With
the mouse driver and the E100BPKT.COM file loaded, I have 596,896 free
memory for Arachne to use.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Joe