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From: Bruce_H_Ring@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: How do you interface with Novell through Turbo C/Pascal?
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Date: 31 Mar 91 20:52:43 GMT
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A few messages ago, rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink)
asked for information about writing NetWare server
applications.  I responded:

> For a book try:
>
>        NetWare Programmer's Guide      $34.96
>        John T. McCann
>        M & T Books
>        1-800-533-4372 (1-800-356-2002 in California)
>
> The book covers NetWare 286 (VAPs) and NetWare 386 (NLMs).
> There are lengthy code examples and you can order the source
> on diskette ($20).


ckinsman@eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman) asks:

> Is this book usable without the C libraries however?

The client application and VAP examples do not need
libraries (assembly code takes care of that).  The NLM
examples use the NetWare 386 libraries (CLIB).  As McCann
points out on page 325, you must use the calls in CLIB for
NLMs.


gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Gribble) says:

> Charles Roses' book Programmer's Guide to Netware,
> LAN Times Book Series, McGraw-Hill is excellent and it
> does NOT require the Netware C Interface.

I agree, but Rose s book covers client applications and VAPs,
*not* NLMs.  I have not found a book other than McCann s
that covers NLMs.  By the way, the copy of Rose s book that
I bought came with a source diskette.


Bruce Ring
Gupta Technologies, Inc.
bruce_h_ring@cup.portal.com