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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: Using DOS TCP/IP Apps under OS/2 2.x
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.171936.26519@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:19:36 GMT
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
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- References: <93026.111925FARID@FRECP12.BITNET>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <93026.111925FARID@FRECP12.BITNET> Farzad FARID <FARID@FRECP12.BITNET> writes:
- > We've got got a Token Ring network with 200 computers running either
- >ms-dos 5.0 or OS/2 2.x with (Dos ) Lan Requester 3.0 and TCP/IP OS/2 1.2.1.
- >Many people under Dos use CUTCP or Winqvtnet with the Clarckson packet
- >drivers, and I've found a neat implementation of the POP3 protocol that uses
- >these packet drivers and Turbo Vision. We would like to generalize the use
- >of TCP/IP and POP for our mail because we can use our Sun's mailer without
- >having yet another mail circuit that would only work on the PCs.We've even
- >found a POP implementation for Mac.
- >Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any implementation of the protocol
- >under OS/2 :(. So I'd like to use temporarily the dos apps. My question
- >is : Is there any way to get Lan Req 3.0, TCP/IP 1.2.1 and the packet
- >drivers work together ? I've vaguely read that Lan Req 3.0 can run a certain
- >number of Dos network apps, but of course these are mainly IBM's software
- >(those that use netdev.sys for example).
- > Can anyone help me by telling me if it is possible or not and, even
- >better, if there is a POP3 implemetation under OS/2? Thanks.
-
- It will work if you have Network Transport Services/2, which provides
- 802.2 services to the DOS sessions. Assuming your software can speak
- 802.2, you'll be all set.
-
- NTS/2 is available from IBM Direct in the United States for about $55.
- IBM Direct can be reached at 800-IBM-2-YOU.
-
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