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Re: TCP/IP Socket library for OS/2?

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From: Mark Saum
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:07
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In article <1992Aug12.055518.14954@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>>In article <GHENNIGA.92Aug11153538@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>>>
>>>I remember someone mentioning that they were writing a PD socket library for
>>>OS/2 2.0 and IBM's TCP/IP 1.2(1). Any new news on a release date for this?
>>>I really hate having to log in to a Unix machine to use gnus to read news
>>>and I think the tcp.c file gnus uses is very simple and a socket library for
>>>OS/2 would allow me to port it to the OS/2 port of GNU Emacs!


>In article <1992Aug12.054918.20154@tamsun.tamu.edu> mss2696@tamsun.tamu.edu (Mark Saum) writes:
>>I've got IBM TCP/IP v1.1 and it comes with socket libraries in the base 
>>package.  What more were you looking for? 

>Yes; but how much does this cost!? :-(

Aparently a lot.  IBM wants $250 just to upgrade from v1.1 to v1.2!!

>>Also, TCP/IP v1.2 comes with a newsreader application.

>A "sample application"!

Yeah, that's what I heard.  What does this mean??  Does it mean it doesn't
work all that well?

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Mark Saum                             |                    Texas A&M University 
Senior BANA/MIS Major                 |                  College Station, Texas
mss2696@tamsun.tamu.edu               |       Programmer, Department of Physics 
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