Re: LYNX-DEV Problems with news and ftp with dos version of lynx

[Bela Lubkin]

Michael Sokolov wrote:

> Your note about two TCP/IP stacks sharing the packet driver suggests that this
> is a good time to review my proposal that Lynx for DOS use an external TCP/IP
> stack in the same way as Lynx for UNIX and Lynx for Win32 do instead of 
> linking
> one into the Lynx executable. This means developing a DOSSOCK specification
> that would accomplish the same task under DOS as WINSOCK does under Windows.

Review all you want, but nobody is going to do it (except maybe you).
Development of a "DOSSOCK specification" and the corresponding code is a
big project, certainly well outside the scope of Lynx.

When DOSSOCK is ready, announce it here and I'm sure several people will
be willing to work on a Lynx port for it.

>Bela<

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