DOS ain't dead

Watt has a new page: http://home.broadpark.no/~gvanem/ (was "www.bgnett.no/~giva" )

regrettably it doesn't work that well ...



That's what WSTEST.EXE brews if it works (address is $FFFF'FFFF - valid ??? redirect not found ...). But in some cases it hangs instead with DHCP waiting (gives up too late or not at all).

Same for OWB - sometimes it works and sometimes not. BTW, OWB can process the JavaScript on RapidSh** - the "countdown" runs to ZERO and then the big download button comes up. Regrettably clicking it has no effect (and OWB can't download from reasonable servers either ... ).

MPXPLAY is worse ... with 1.57b4 it always hangs, if it gets aborted, it "returns to DOS", but MPXPLAY screen is still on and the keyboard is disabled - not even CTL-ALT-DEL works So, I was not able to test the FTP fixes ...

Oddly, I never have such problems with Arachne nor DOSLynx, they always work (if DOSLYNX.CFG is correct).

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> Watt has a new page: http://home.broadpark.no/~gvanem/ (was
> "www.bgnett.no/~giva" )

Thanks! I've updated my Links page.

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> MPXPLAY is worse ... with 1.57b4 it always hangs, if it gets aborted, it
> "returns to DOS", but MPXPLAY screen is still on and the keyboard is
> disabled -
> not even CTL-ALT-DEL works So, I was not able to test the FTP fixes
> ...
>
> Oddly, I never have such problems with Arachne nor DOSLynx, they always
> work (if DOSLYNX.CFG is correct).

Yeah, I did want to say, that it's rather a WATTCP bug, not Mpxplay.
WATTCP was good for me, because it's 95% Win32 (BSD?) compatible, so I could easily make the DOS port of my ftp-client. But it seems it doesn't work...
Currently I have no time to write a completely different DOS/TCPIP handling for Mpxplay, and I also have no testing environment for the develop...

Ideas:
1. Try -bn8 option at Mpxplay
2. It seems the HX extender also uses WATTCP (it has wattcp.cfg).
Do you have success with a win32 ftp program under HX?
If yes, did you try the wattcp.cfg file of HX for Mpxplay?

btw. at tcp initialization, HX and Mpxplay also call only a sock_init() function from wattcp (Mpxplay and other programs hang here), nothing to correct on our side...