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Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014) by peter_d_sherman on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:25AM (#27744834)
>"Many DOS applications that use TCP/IP use a TCP library rather than a system driver, and FreeDOS has two that are compatible with the Crynwr packet driver:

mTCP, still supported and accompanied by a handful of utilities (including an IRC client), and the venerable

Waterloo TCP (WATTCP) developed in the early 1990s."

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Re:I work in DOS for a day (2014) by tssva on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:24PM (#27753771)
mTCP is small enough to be used easily on DOS systems all the way back to the original PC. I have several XT class systems which I have restored. I have a few 8-bit ISA NICs which I use along with the FTP server provided with mTCP to transfer files to them.
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