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From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Network API comments?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 14:56:30 GMT
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In article <1052@rna.UUCP>, kc@rna.UUCP (Kaare Christian) says:
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>Does anyone have comments on writing simple network apps with the various
>PC network systems. What I want to do is pass simple messages among a
>group of four or five pcs. I've written similar code using Berkeley
>sockets on Unix systems, and it would be nice to have a somewhat
>simpler api. A not too humungous device driver would also be nice.
>
>Kaare Christian
>kc@rna.rockefeller.edu

You may want to get a book called "The C Programmers Guide to NetBIOS".
It's a SAMS book. Sorry I don't have all the info on it. 

I am writing a game application for NetBios and are using some of the
routines that are in the book. It seems to work real well on a 3Com 3+Share
and a LanManager network. I haven't tried it on a Novell system yet, but I 
believe there is a NetBios type of program for it too. Banyan also. 

The game is so I can learn programming in NetBIOS for other applications.

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu