Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!sirius.mcs.anl.gov!winans From: winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: answers to commonly asked questions periodic posting Message-ID: <1991Mar14.161250.10375@mcs.anl.gov> Date: 14 Mar 91 16:12:50 GMT References: <9103081022.AA08463@asylum.sf.ca.us> <9103100326.AA13175@TIS.COM> Sender: news@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: sirius.mcs.anl.gov In article <9103100326.AA13175@TIS.COM> James M Galvin writes: > > Does anyone have any serious problems with me setting up a periodic > post to the list that answers questions that come up often? > >As maintainer of the list, let me encourage you to do this. I think it is a >great idea. > >Jim Please let me start the question list: 1) Exactly what is a packet driver? 2) What is the relationship b/w the packet driver(s) and the DOS application? 3) What are the common packet driver package names & sources/prices/etc... 4) What is PC/IP and how does it interact w/the other stuff like packet drivers (if it does at all?) 5) What do I need in order to open sockets from a DOS Application to a host capable of dealing with them (like a Sun or RS-6000)? 6) Is there any TLI oriented stuff out there (yet)? --John -- ! John Winans Advanced Computing Research Facility ! ! winans@mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois ! ! ! !"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away"-- Tom Waits !