ash@relay.eu.net (Andrew Hardie) (12/27/90)
I know that there are ways of making UNIX boxes connected to a TCP/IP network set their clocks from a single point, but does anyone know a way for DOS boxes to set their time from a UNIX host over TCP/IP. DOS boxes will be PC/TCP and UNIX box will be SCO UNIX. Suggestions gratefully received before I attempt a solution myself. Thanks Andrew -- Andrew Hardie London, England ash@omega.uucp ukc!cctal!omega!ash
jbvb@ftp.com (James B. Van Bokkelen) (12/28/90)
PC/TCP's SETCLOCK.EXE will query timeservers over the net (something makes me think the RFC was 768 - a simple UDP query/response). The MIT-CMU-Harvard PCIP distribution has the ancestral SETCLOCK. As far as I know, both programs require unaesthetic tinkering to deal with all the world's daylight savings algorithms... There is a p-d time server for 4bsd Unix, which we distribute on our PC-800 freeware collection diskette. I don't know how much effort would be required to port it to streams, but the original program is only about 200 lines of C. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901