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 On 2020 Apr 21 13:26:00, you wrote to me:

 >> i forget the files that i used long ago but i ripped a few of the
 >> network drivers from WfWG and used them on an original IBM PC running
 >> off floppies... the machine was able to be a NETBIOS file server or
 >> client but only just barely... loading a different driver provided
 >> TCP/IP capabilities... again, it was just barely functional because it
 >> was highly limited by memory and disk space but it worked and that was
 >> the main thing...

 MP> I have/had a copy of the MS network client working a few years ago...
 MP> also barely.  IIRC, I was able to map to a network drive on a system
 MP> running as the server.  I was able to do a few other things, include
 MP> get an IP address assigned from the network.  I do not remember ever
 MP> being able to get traffic out past the local network, though.

yeah, you would have to check the routing table and ensure the default route
was to the perimeter device like the other systems on the network have...

you would definitely have to have external tools like ping, tracert, host, and
ftp, too... also a text based browser like links or lynx for any web
browsing... all of these would have to work with the configured packet driver,
too... this is where the ones like those compiled with (eg:) wattcp(?) would
be used and you'd have to be using the wattcp packet driver, as well...

those were the fun times! getting it working and then trying to hunt down the
pre-compiled tools to work with that version of DOS and the packet driver
being used...

)\/(ark

"The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my
majesty, ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a
shiny thing!"
... we've got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss
righ
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