accessing dos tcp/ip stack from QB

Hi, how would i go about accessing a dos TCP/IP stack using quickbasic? i want to access it using the def seg, peek, poke commands... i need to write an IRC client for my dos box because all the other ones out there suck.

i wrote an awesome one a few years ago that resembled mirc but i had to use the qbsock tool that somebody wrote, i dunno if anybody remembers it but you had to run qbsock in windows and then use QB to access it from the same PC. i want to work with a DOS-only system.

thanks!
-Mike