Hi Samuel!
03 Mar 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> As a user of many different DOS internet applications I have somehow
SH> developed the impression that different applications should use
SH> different WATTCP.CFGs for optimal performance.
no
SH> I have just discovered for certain that it is indeed true that
SH> WATTCP.CFG files are in fact application-specific in some cases. I
SH> should like to point out a couple of references I found today that
SH> will bear this out:
SH> http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month081999/msg00668.html
SH> http://fdisk.com/doslynx/doslynx-dev/9911/0032.html
This simply says that there are small differences between 32-bit djgpp
oriented watt-32 and the standard wattcp library.
(PS: Michael what about the arachne watt32 port ?
and what happened to the ability to use winsock from dos arachne ?)
> compiled with WATTCP, while LYNX.EXE was compiled with WATT-32. WATT-32
> is configured to use "mtu", while WATTCP uses "mss".
simply put max segment size _AND_ max transfer unit in the file.
(but IMHO not really necessary, because it should work with the defaults
just fine)
SH> All the best,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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