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From: vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella)
Subject: Re: help with packet drivers, please
Message-ID: <1991May22.184039.8855@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:40:39 GMT
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feb@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM (Frank Bien) writes:

>I recently picked up a copy of DIS_PKT.DOS from usu via
>anon ftp. It looks like something which can solve (at least in 
>part) my problems. I could use some advise. 

>I have a Zenith 286 machine (3 mb RAM) windows 3.0, etc.

>I am trying to run a variety of networking programs over a single 
>Western Digital Ethernet Card (WD8003e), but am having little luck 
>running them all without rebooting when I change between them.

>Running (or at least trying to):
>	NCSA Telnet 2.3 beta something
>		-- uses its own internal packet drivers
>	qvtnet (new May 91 version) which may replace ncsa_telnet
>		-- uses clarkson packet driver
>	XVISION X-windows for windows
>		-- uses FTP Software packet driver
>	FTP Software -- use some of their utils, but no TNVT or FTP
>		-- uses FTP Sofware drivers
>	IBM's pc local area network (v1.3)
>		-- uses Western Digital's netbios driver

>The object is to have a package to log into various hosts 
>(XWindows), a package to use when I don't want to wait for 
>XWindows on my slow pc and to FTP back to my pc (qvtnet or 
>ncsa_telnet), and a package to network 5 or 6 pc's together 
>(preferably each as servers) -- IBM's LAN package (hey, it was 
>free -- we had several extra packages).

>Right now, I start my machine and default to the clarkson packet 
>drivers so I can run qvtnet.  If I want to run XWindows or IBM LAN 
>i have to modify the config.sys and autoexec, shutting of the old 
>driver and turning on the new, and then reboot (what a pain in the 
>ass).  

>Any advise or assistance on how to run these packages in "peace 
>and harmony" would be greatly appreciated.  I couldn't get dis_pkt 
>to work, will it do what I want?  If so what would the config.sys 
>and protocol.ini look like?

>thanks for any help,

>Frank Bien
>feb@gumby.dsd.trw.com
>(213) 812-5072
>e-mail please

I do the same thing as you do. I run all my programs from a batch file.

Before I put any external drivers or interfaces (such as is needed for
WinQVTNet), I use a memory marker (such as MARK.EXE). Then I run the programs.
When the program is finished and control returns to the batch file, I
use RELEASE.EXE to remove the drivers, etc., from memory. 

For Windows, I place the marker, load the TCP/IP driver and the WINQVTNET
interface module before running Windows. The batch file continues to load
Windows. After exiting Windows, the modules are released.

MARK/RELEASE are shareware utilities available almost anywhere.

Cheers.


--

Vincent Mazzarella
College of Medicine, Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
e-mail: mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu