On (02 May 97) Alexandre Ostanine wrote to ALL...
 AO> Hi to any one.
Hello,
 AO> I'm making my first steps in Networking, and from the first one
 AO> 've got a problem:
 AO> In  Windows API I've found information about interrupt 5CH from
 AO> NetBIOS and there was that I should call this (at least better to)
 AO> interrupt to have something from it.
 AO> The question is WHAT this interrupt does and can I use it to
 AO> exchange some data between two remote computers (programs)
 AO> If it is what I'm locking for  - PLEASE HELP me with information
 AO> about it
 AO> (Win32  Environment )
Interrupt 5ch is a front-end to NetBIOS.  I'd reccomend against using it
if at all possible - it's very low-level, so quite a bit of code is
needed to get anything done.  In addition, it's dependent on NetBIOS, so
it won't always work on machines that don't have NetBIOS installed.
Finally, while I believe there's _some_ front-end to NetBIOS in Win32,
you can't do it through interrupt 5ch anyway.
If at least one of the machines you're communicating between is running
Windows NT, you might want to use named pipes for your communication.
If not, your best bet is probably to use Windows Sockets.  Both named
pipes and sockets are much higher level, so communicating with the other
machine will be much like reading from or writing to a file, except that
instead communicating with a disk drive, you'll end up communicating
with another computer.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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