I had a question: How can I use sockets without winsock or windows related socket libraries. I want to use sockets in DOS. Could someone please refer me to a tutorial? Please email me with a URL at: cybercoder15@yahoo.com Thanks

Um, I wanna say that DOS doesn''t exist anymore, but that''s not completely accurate. As far as Microsoft goes, DOS doesn''t exist.

You can use winsock with a console application. That''s probably the best way to go unless you want to write your own tcpip stack.

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I already saw a berkeley socket implementation for DOS but I don''t think you should use that. Anyway, I don''t understand neither why you''d want to use DOS "socket". Windows has a set of socket call that is somewhat compatible with linux socket calls (if you don''t use any WSA* function). DOS (and I really mean DOS not a console application) does use a set of interrupt call (if I remember well) that is not portable at all. So, despite the fact that the windows winsock.h library could seem to be a pain, it stays a more usefull alternative than use DOS interrupts. Furthermore, DOS interrupts as I said earlier is not compatible with ANY other OS (not even Windows Network). So if your application is a windows console one, you should definitely use winsock.h and not some interrupt stuff (that will probably fail miserably under Windows'' DOS virtual machine).