On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:42:33 -0500, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Samuel W. Heywood" wrote: <snip> >> Sam Heywood >> From what I understand, by default, DOS applications are not able to touch the > Windows networking layer w/o a packet driver installed when Windows is launched > (i.e. something like ndis3pkt: http://www.danlan.com/). Depending on the > libraries' rules, you could always include a packet driver on your (bootable) > floppy and just restart the computer into your floppy. :) I don't know if they will allow me to boot from a floppy. I will have to ask again about the rules. Maybe it wouldn't help anyway. Perhaps the DSL connection requires Windows to be running in order for the connection to be acknowledged by the system. Really I just don't know. I am very ignorant of how DSL works. All I know is that it works very well, but I don't know about the system requirements. If I were to ask my ISP about the system reqirements I am certain that they will tell me that they don't support DOS, even though they already know that I use it all the time to get on the internet. What they really mean by saying that they don't support DOS is that they are not willing to help anyone using DOS to connect to their system. Thanks for the URL. I will check it out. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
