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From: jih@ox.com (John Hritz)
Subject: Re: How do you interface with Novell through Turbo C/Pascal?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.040225.430@ox.com>
Organization: OTA Limited Partnership
References: <1991Mar12.202349.23968@eng.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 04:02:25 GMT

In article <1991Mar12.202349.23968@eng.umd.edu> rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>I'd like to ask how I write C code (from Turbo C, if this matters) to
>interface with Novell -- are there object modules containing functions
>to do various things (get connection info, send messages, etc.) in C?
>In Pascal?
>
>Where can I get more information -- are there some books or such that you
>could recommend?  Example code, maybe?  I'm running the 286 version, soon
>to be upgraded to the 386 version.
>

	I suspect that you will find writing under the 386 environment
more enjoyable.  Watcom and Novell have a compiler combination that will 
even permit the construction of NLMs, Netware Loadable Modules.  NLMs run
on the server as part of the Novell multitasking environment.  You can
also write workstation based apps with the compiler.  The function set
for the 386 package is fairly rich, with support for IPC, and multi-thread
operation among the interesting points.  It's kind of a cross between
OS/2 and Unix.



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