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An open source TPDD_server written in plain C.

Originally there was a commercial MS-DOS product named Desk-Link from Travelling Software.
Desk-Link

Then Stephen Hurd wrote a new work-alike he named dl - DeskLink for *nix.
dl 1.0 to 1.3

Then John Hogerhuis developed it a little further and called that dlplus
dlplus
retroactively versioned dl 1.4 but it doesn't say that itself

Currently Brian K. White has developed it further and is calling that dl2.
dl2

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-==DeskLink+==
+==DeskLink2==
-A basic "TPDD server" implimented in plain C.
+An open source [[TPDD_server]] written in plain C.
-'''dlplus''' is a fork of an earlier program called '''dl''', which was an open-source clone of an even earlier closed-source program called '''Desk-Link'''.
+Originally there was a commercial MS-DOS product named Desk-Link from Travelling Software.<br>
+[http://ftp.whtech.com/club100/com/dl-arc.exe.gz Desk-Link]
-Current/Latest version: [http://github.com/bkw777/dlplus dlplus git repo]. (may possibly rename this to "dl 1.5")
+Then Stephen Hurd wrote a new work-alike he named '''dl - DeskLink for *nix'''.<br>
+[http://m100.bbsdev.net/ dl 1.0 to 1.3]
-===History===
+Then John Hogerhuis developed it a little further and called that '''dlplus'''<br>
-Previous [http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=DLPlus dlplus] (could also be thought of as "dl 1.4", although it doesn't say that itself)
+[http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=DLPlus dlplus]<br>
+retroactively versioned dl 1.4 but it doesn't say that itself
-[http://m100.bbsdev.net/ dl 1.0 to 1.3]
-Last version of the original MS-DOS closed-source [http://ftp.whtech.com/club100/com/dl-arc.exe.gz Desk-Link] (Self extracting ms-dos executable. Can be run in dosbox.)
+Currently Brian K. White has developed it further and is calling that '''dl2'''.<br>
+[http://github.com/bkw777/dl2 dl2]