[SPAM] Re: [TAG] Dos based Web Crawling/DOS based Web Robot

[Mike Orr]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:13:36AM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> Mike Orr wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:07:48PM -0500, sword777 wrote:
> >
> >>But......  How does the setiathome cmd line client connect to the net, 
> >>when
> >>it's running in dos?  Is command.com different than a real DOS program?
> >
> >
> >No, they're the same.  I don't know whether it requires Winsock to be 
> >required
> >or what it depends on.  Look at the install instructions.
> >
> 
> Erm... if he's talking about command.com in Windows 95/98/ME, then it is
> slightly different. (But pretty much the same). Windows CLI programs can
> be run from command.com, but can access the Win32 API. The setiathome
> program is most likely a Windows CLI app, not a DOS app per se.

I was thrown by the question.  One because I've never heard of anybody
running setiathome on DOS, two because I assumed that if such a program
existed, it would be written for Windows >= 95, not for DOS < 7.0 (I
think that's what Win95 reports itself as).  But he's talking about a
simple program for the bad old single-tasking DOS.

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