OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
TCP/IP from MVDM DOS sessions
SoundChaser:
--- Quote from: Sean Casey on April 18, 2025, 03:41:29 pm ---Should you ever get FTP Software's stack working on OS/2, please report back. I use Paradox 4.5 for DOS w. SQL Link to Interbase which requires FTP Software's TCP/IP stack. Would like to ditch DOS and move it to OS/2.
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Ever considered migrating it to Paradox 4.5 for Windows 3.1 instead? If it was discarded, I'd be curious to know more. The core db engine is supposedly the same.
Bogdan:
--- Quote from: SoundChaser on April 17, 2025, 04:20:15 am ---Hello folks,
TL;DR - is there a recipe to have packet drivers in a MVDM session talk to a NIC's physical device driver?
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It works without any problems using FTP Software's PC/TCP with INT61VDD.SYS driver.
--- Quote ---Fast forward in 2025, I mostly only care about TCP/IP. While my previous searches led me to find some development material for "IBM TCP/IP for OS/2" (the vanilla TCP/IP support) there's really only very few applications designed around IBM's SDK beyond IBM's own tools or WinOS2 TCP/IP support.
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The DOS part of the TCP/IP PTK shares the same interfaces with FTP Software's PC/TCP Version 4. So all TCP/IP DOS applications shipped with the PC/TCP product or OnNet should work.
Sean Casey:
--- Quote from: SoundChaser on April 22, 2025, 05:54:53 am ---Ever considered migrating it to Paradox 4.5 for Windows 3.1 instead? If it was discarded, I'd be curious to know more. The core db engine is supposedly the same.
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I use Paradox 9 on Linux Wine almost daily for a couple GUI db apps, but I like Paradox for DOS if I just need to look things up via SQL as it's very fast. PDX for DOS works fine in OS/2 when accessing SQL Server via db-lib, but I can't get to my Interbase data via Paradox for DOS in OS/2 as it requires FTP Software's FTP stack. Not a big deal, but I had spent some time a while back to see if I could get it to work under OS/2, so I was interested in this thread.
I couldn't find anything on that INT61VDD.SYS driver Bogdan refered to?
SoundChaser:
--- Quote ---It works without any problems using FTP Software's PC/TCP with INT61VDD.SYS driver.
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OMG, Bogdan... this is what I was looking for, and for a while now, but it seems that information was obliterated from the search engines.
The VDD must have a PDD counterpart? I assume this comes from PC/TCP for OS/2?
Sean Casey:
I see, that INT61VDD.SYS, an INT 61h emulator, was included in PC/TCP for OS/2. I'll need to install both FTP Software's OS/2 and DOS products.
Update: Installed PC/TCP OS/2 and DOS on Warp 3 and a quick test of the PC/TCP DOS stack seems to work fine. Unfortunately, the version of FTP Software's PC/TCP for OS/2 version I have, version 1.3.1, isn't compatible with ArcaOS (INT61VDD.SYS dated 3/31/95).
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