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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Other Compilers for FTP
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Date: 25 Jan 91 22:48:13 GMT
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    Is there ANY way you can use TC++ to access the tcp driver
    and on to the socket. She wants only to send messages from
    a PC to a SUN.

At various times I've heard assertions that the Turbo and MSC libraries
and linkers are intended to be compatible at the .OBJ level, but
experimentation indicates that's only true for very simple programs, or
for very energetic developers with knowlege of the internals.  The 2.05
release of our Dev Kit (due Real Soon Now) will contain the source to
the socket libraries, which will make the job much easier.

Meanwhile if your developer is willing to use our INT 61 API (see the
System Call Reference section of the manual), they can be programmed
from whatever the TC equivalent of int86x() is, and correspond pretty
well to the socket functions.

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