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DHCP / Watt / WATTCP.CFG / WSTEST / OWB / MPXPLAY FTP / D&A (Users)

posted by Mpxplay, 26.05.2010, 12:23
(edited by Mpxplay on 26.05.2010, 12:43)

> 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...

Complete thread:

• DHCP / Watt / WATTCP.CFG / WSTEST / OWB / MPXPLAY FTP / D&A - DOS386, 24.05.2010, 07:22 (Users)
  • DHCP / Watt / WATTCP.CFG / WSTEST / OWB / MPXPLAY FTP / D&A - rr, 24.05.2010, 14:42
  • DHCP / Watt / WATTCP.CFG / WSTEST / OWB / MPXPLAY FTP / D&A - Mpxplay, 26.05.2010, 12:23