vncviewer for DOS or Win3.11 - anyone working on it?

[Federico Bianchi]

On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote:

> Just to keep you updated: I've started a quick&dirty vncviewer port to DOS
> using the Waterloo TCP/IP library (it uses packet drivers, which are
> available for most cards) and Allegro. The networking part was easy and
> works already, the graphics seem to be simple too, but I'll continue
> tomorrow... I decided to use wattcp instead of a winsock-based solution
> because I couldn't find useful libraries for tcp/ip over winsock.
> 
> Regards,
> Marinos
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Oh, well... Winsock is _definitely_ out of question, since you are running
under DOS. I know there are routines to handle this (I am in contact with
mr. Hedlund and arguing with him whether the right approach is a proxying 
Windows app or the current interface to WSOCK.VXD), but they don't work
outside Windows. As I already told you, a 32 bit DOS port, while nice in
itself, would be far less useful than a true 16 bit DOS or Windows one,
since you usually have the option of loading Linux from a DOS partition
(barring weird graphics cards, of course, unless you are going to program
a lot...).

Best regards
			Federico Bianchi
			f.bianchi "at" arte.unipi.it


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