While there are not likely to be sophisticated servers for an MS-
DOS
environment, there are plenty of good client programs. One of
the
complications of DOS is the fact that it has not been a networked
operating
system. While this is different for Windows-NT, and will be true
for
newer MS Windows users, older MS Windows or MS DOS users
must provide their
own networking. 
.
There are a number of public domain or low cost networking
packages that run
under MS Windows. Most conform to the emerging
winsock network
Application Programming Interface (API). Winsock has the
massive
advantage that it is very closely compatible with the most
widely used
Unix
networking API, the so-called BSD sockets interface.
This
means that a widely used client, NCSA's Mosaic has been ported
to the
Windows environment on PCs.
The configuration below in table4.1 is a subset of a tested one that works with Mosaic 2.0. The fields are largely self-explanatory. Also, many of these can be set from the application.
Table 4.1: Partial Configuration for Mosaic for Windows