To port curl to DOS, one would first need a TCP/IP stack available to the
OS. There are a few out there, including commercial packages and the public
domain Waterloo TCP (www.wattcp.com). These require a packet driver to
handle the socket I/O. Russ Nelson has been developing packet drivers for a
long time, and he makes these available at www.crynwr.com. If you're
already using the machine on a network, e.g. MS/TCP LANMAN or Windows/WG,
you could instead use an NDIS-to-packet shim for this purpose. You can find
these at www.danlan.com.

Building a WATTCP app from scratch is actually fairly straightforward, with
only a limited number of socket I/O calls. There are several included
application examples in the WATTCP source code package. However, porting an
existing socket-based app to WATTCP entails a good amount of work because it
uses completely different socket calls. I haven't looked at curl code with
an eye towards a DOS port, but it can probably be done with some work.
However, it would come with the extra baggage described above, i.e. it
wouldn't work out-of-the-box without the packet driver and such.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-curl_at_contactor.se [mailto:owner-curl_at_contactor.se]On Behalf
Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 03:20
To: Curl Mailinglist
Cc: cerice_at_ups.com
Subject: curl for dos (fwd)

Does anyone know of a DOS port of curl? Can anyone provide one?

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:45:50 -0400
From: Charles Rice <cerice_at_ups.com>
To: curl web <curl-web_at_haxx.se>
Subject: curl for dos
I was wordering if there was a port for DOS
like wget has?
http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/
I was wanting to run it on dos 7.0
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Charles Rice