Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!ima!spdcc!ftp!jbvb From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: BootP Server Summary: CMU bootp server might be simple port to a DOS socket library Message-ID: <598@ftp.COM> Date: 18 Mar 89 01:04:44 GMT References: Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 In article , billy@VENERA.ISI.EDU (Billy Brackenridge) writes: > Has anyone written a BootP server for the PC/IP package. I mean a BootP that > runs on a PC. Provided that the CMU public-domain Unix bootp server doesn't make extensive use of Unix functions that aren't in Microsoft C, it should port to one of the high-quality DOS socket (PC/TCP or PC/NFS) emulations fairly simply. Typically, a DOS socket library doesn't support any file operations on a socket except read(), write() and close(). You can't use dup(), putc(), fgets() or other high-level functions on a socket, and child processes don't inherit sockets. Neither does the DOS library include dbm(), if that is how CMU stores the data. -- James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901