Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx for Windows

[Michael Sokolov]

I suggest that you look at the message I have once posted on this subject. All
posting are archived at http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/. I can't point you to a
message URL, but you can search for "Michael Sokolov" and you'll quickly find
it, since I don't post very much. In that posting I presented a complete
discussion of the problem, including the VxD and network access issues. In case
you find that posting too long, here is the solution I have offered there:
replace (or supplement) the DJGPP version of Lynx with a version that uses an
external TCP/IP stack instead of a linked-in one, write a DOSSOCK specification
similar to WINSOCK, and use it as the interface between the 32-bit
protected-mode DOS version of Lynx and the external TCP/IP stack. When that is
done, DOS users will be able to load a DOSSOCK-compliant TCP/IP stack and run
Lynx, while Windows 3.xx users will be able run the exact same Lynx executable
in a DOS box with a WINSOCK-to-DOSSOCK adapter. That adapter will have to be a
VxD, but I am willing to write it.

Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
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