[12194] in Athena Bugs
Not a bug: is any "tech" stuff winsock compliant ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maurik Holtrop)
Thu Jul 7 11:32:08 1994
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 11:29:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Maurik Holtrop <maurik@sancho.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Dear Tech- developer/staff,
I have a 486 system running Windows 3.11, and I am curently running
Pathworks V5.0a from Digital. Pathworks comes with a winsock compliant
socket library, and allows me to mount ultrix disks, and send files
directly to the printer.
However it seems that your applications, techmail, techinfo require
Lan-workplace, and will not run over winsock. I guess you made this
choice because this way it will run on dos only systems also ?
Anyway, my question to you is: Is there a way in which I can "have it
all" ?
In my opinion I found your TCP/IP stack very solid and reliable and fast,
the same is true for the Microsoft tcp/ip stack, but pathworks stack has
a few problems mostly with it's memory use. In theory it should be
possible to run pathworks over a diffetent tcp/ip stack, but this won't
work when the "server" system is not on the same ethernet loop.
Thus I am kind of stuck running their stack.
I would like to print directly to the printers here, which are connected
over LAT ( sorry no ethernet cards in these things, it's a shame. ) And I
would like to be able to mount the ultrix disks ( nsf or pathworks ).
Can this be done over LAN-workplace ?
Do you have versions of Techinfo and Techmail that can talk over winsock ?
Thanks for your help,
Maurik
Maurik@sancho.mit.edu
