DOS to Windows communication

[Jonathan Simpson]

I am studying the feasability of designing a communication system for DOS<Windows communications. As many of you know, such communication is generally done with either files or via the clipboard. I am trying to come up with an alternative.

One interesting concept is communication via TCP/IP. I believe it should be possible to create a communications mechanism that takes advantage of TCP, although exactly how to achive this, I am not sure. The best place to start, I think, is to get a DOS application working properly under windows which is capable of handling it's own TCP usage internally, and I think the best way to do that is to work with a packet driver shim that communicates with the windows functions for TCP.

I am not sure how much of this is possible, but I would like any input. Anyone with any ideas, links, or information that might help with this, please send it my way.

Thanks,
Jonathan Simpson

[Plasma]

I don't think the TCP/IP thing would work that great (if at all...)
What you want to do is write a VXD for 9x/Me or a VDD for NT/2K/XP that can communicate with a DOS box. See v1ctor/blitz's DSOCK to see how this works.

[TheBigBasicQ]

theres a dsock library which is basically similar to the winsock library which is for win32 environment. Here is the download link http://www.neozones.com/c4/

edit: we both posted at almost the sametime :roll:

edit: http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/someone42/wsxs10.zip heres another library.

[Blitz]

I had nothing to do with DSock