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In article <32e54786.485937@news.demon.co.uk>,
dougie@dciuk01.demon.co.uk (DougieG) wrote:

>For several reasons,  I am going to have to do some bespoke
>development to create a WINDIS like program that will log on to demon,
>pull down mail and add some distribution features.

>Is there anyone out there that has done this (and are you willing to
>share your code), or is the code for WINDIS available?

I've done some IP programming using VB4 and will be happy to help if
needed.   The source of WinDis is not available: I believe it was sold
to a developer.

>We are looking to program this in Visual Basic 4.0 on a 32 bit
>platform.

I can recommend "Visual Basic 4.0 Internet Programming" by Carl
Franklin, published by John Wiley, ISBN 0-471-13420-1 at $39.95.   A
chapter from this book, with some sample code, can be downloaded from
Carl & Gary's VB page at  http://www.apexsc.com/vb/   The book
contains full source code for simple SMTP and POP3 mailers, NNTP
clients, Web browsers and so on.

It is possible to program to the winsock directly but it's much easier
using a specialist custom OCX.   The one I use, also recommended by
Franklin's book, is from Dolphin Systems at http://www.dolphinsys.com/
and it makes winsock programming very simple.

It's freely available for evaluation and displays a nag screen until
registered.   Registration is a little expensive at $99 if, like me,
you just want to play around rather than produce commercial software
but what the hell, I've registered it :-)    If you do want to issue
your masterpieces, one advantage of Dolphin's OCX over some other
products is that there are no run-time royalties to pay.

Regards, Mike.
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