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Hey, Your isp should have software for Windows 3.1 internet connectivity. The best-of-breed for tcp/ip stacks in the days of Windows 3.1 was Trumpet Winsock.
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I used trumpet Winsock on windows 3.1 and Netscape 4.07. Know of a good, free (or non-cripled shareware) winsock implementation for Win 3.1x? And I could still download files (including embedded images) to my PC. Connecting to the WWW With Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (WfW) 3.11, released back in 1993, was the first operating system I ever used. As the name suggests, WfW was designed for networking in workgroups of a few people and workstations.
Not the most simpliest thing to set up, but it's great. Microsoft once distributed a dialer similiar to the Win9x/NT dial-up networking with Internet Explorer. I am not too sure if it is still available. You can go to microsoft.com and download the IE5 for Win3.1, it should have a dialer that you can install independant of the browser. RE: connecting to internet (Instructor) 17 Jul 00 03:18. Hello, I seem to have a similar problem.I've managed to setup Microsoft's network client in MSDOS in my old 80286 and everything worked all right with TCP/IP on it.
Now I want to have network access inside windows for workgroups 3.10 (not 3.11) that can be run on a 80286 machine. I mean I want to browse the internet inside windows.
Is it possible to setup my IP address,Gateway,DHCP,etc from DOS and make those setting visible to Windows? I've read somewhere else something about winpkt driver that uses DOS tsr to give access to the NIC from inside Windows. Does anyone know anything about this? Come on you guru guys out there,please help me! RE: connecting to internet (TechnicalUser) 5 Mar 04 15:53.
I would think that Windows for Workgroups would be needed. From: 'Short for Windows Socket, Winsock is an Application Programming Interface (API) for developing Windows programs that can communicate with other machines via the TCP/IP protocol. Windows 95 and Windows NT comes with Dynamic Link Library (DLL) called winsock.dll that implements the API and acts as the glue between Windows programs and TCP/IP connections. In addition to the Microsoft version of winsock.dll, there are other freeware and shareware versions of winsock.dll.
However, there is no official standard for the Winsock API, so each implementation differs in minor ways.' Just a note, ccording to the Resource Kits, both Windows 3.xx and WFW3.11 will work on an 80286 in Standard Mode only, require an 80386 for the 386Enhanced mode. RE: connecting to internet (Programmer) 15 Apr 04 03:12. Thanks for the help Blujacket Do you advise me to upgrade to wfw 3.11?I currently run wfw 3.10 because I had heard that only.that.
version could run on my 80286.After the installation,is network support embedded in wfw3.11,or do I have to install the tcp/ip addon for wfw3.11?I've seen somewhere a 16-bit version of tcp/ip addon.I know I cannot install wfwtcp32.exe! I don't want to program with winsock,I need to network my old PC and make it able to access the internet. RE: connecting to internet (TechnicalUser) 15 Apr 04 11:53.
Hey, Your isp should have software for Windows 3.1 internet connectivity. The best-of-breed for tcp/ip stacks in the days of Windows 3.1 was Trumpet Winsock. Not the most simpliest thing to set up, but it's great. Microsoft once distributed a dialer similiar to the Win9x/NT dial-up networking with Internet Explorer.
I am not too sure if it is still available. You can go to microsoft.com and download the IE5 for Win3.1, it should have a dialer that you can install independant of the browser. RE: connecting to internet (Instructor) 17 Jul 00 03:18. Hello, I seem to have a similar problem.I've managed to setup Microsoft's network client in MSDOS in my old 80286 and everything worked all right with TCP/IP on it. Now I want to have network access inside windows for workgroups 3.10 (not 3.11) that can be run on a 80286 machine.
I mean I want to browse the internet inside windows. Is it possible to setup my IP address,Gateway,DHCP,etc from DOS and make those setting visible to Windows? I've read somewhere else something about winpkt driver that uses DOS tsr to give access to the NIC from inside Windows. Does anyone know anything about this? Come on you guru guys out there,please help me! RE: connecting to internet (TechnicalUser) 5 Mar 04 15:53. I would think that Windows for Workgroups would be needed.
From: 'Short for Windows Socket, Winsock is an Application Programming Interface (API) for developing Windows programs that can communicate with other machines via the TCP/IP protocol. Windows 95 and Windows NT comes with Dynamic Link Library (DLL) called winsock.dll that implements the API and acts as the glue between Windows programs and TCP/IP connections. In addition to the Microsoft version of winsock.dll, there are other freeware and shareware versions of winsock.dll. However, there is no official standard for the Winsock API, so each implementation differs in minor ways.' Just a note, ccording to the Resource Kits, both Windows 3.xx and WFW3.11 will work on an 80286 in Standard Mode only, require an 80386 for the 386Enhanced mode. RE: connecting to internet (Programmer) 15 Apr 04 03:12.
Thanks for the help Blujacket Do you advise me to upgrade to wfw 3.11?I currently run wfw 3.10 because I had heard that only.that. version could run on my 80286.After the installation,is network support embedded in wfw3.11,or do I have to install the tcp/ip addon for wfw3.11?I've seen somewhere a 16-bit version of tcp/ip addon.I know I cannot install wfwtcp32.exe! I don't want to program with winsock,I need to network my old PC and make it able to access the internet. RE: connecting to internet (TechnicalUser) 15 Apr 04 11:53.