craigs@cognos.UUCP (Craig Statchuk) (04/12/90)
I have been trying to dig up sources for TCP/IP TRANSPORT level support
under OS/2. So far I have come up with 4 possibilities -- any of which
may or may not be suitable -- maybe someone can help:
1. PC/TCP for OS/2 from FTP Inc. This is a new product (just released this
month) that provides APPLICATION layer support (ftp, telenet, et al.)
Currently they DO NOT have a Programmer's Toolkit that provides TRANSPORT
layer support (either 4.x BSD Sockets or NAMED PIPES is acceptable).
Apparently they will be releasing such a product soon.
2. TCP/IP for OS/2 from IBM. Appears to have all neccessary development
tools and libraries. Questions: Rumour has it that you need OS/2 EE to
use this package -- does anyone know for sure? Also, are any of the
libraries usable in a DLL?
3. Essex TCP/2 -- had some good recommendations on this package except
that I don't know how to contact them (sorry but I've never heard
of Essex Systems -- I have a feeling that this is about to change).
4. Excelan/Novell for OS/2 -- Provides 4.3 BSD socket support as DLL
(good!) and support for NDIS network cards. Question: Is Novell LAN
Manager Software required to run in a UNIX environment? Does anyone
have any experience with this package?
We intend to port some existing applications from SUN UNIX to OS/2
and would like to use a BSD Socket library.
Thanks in advance -- I will summarize responses for the net if I
find out anything interesting...
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