Re: mTCP 2013-04-26 is available

Posted on 2013-05-31, 03:10

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"Auto" on the clients really doesn't tell me enough. The mTCP FTP server defaults to "binary" transfers, so no translation should be done. If a client sets the transfer mode to ASCII for you because it thinks it is doing you a favor, that will change the interpretation of the newline character. …

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Re: mTCP 2013-04-26 is available

Posted on 2013-05-27, 23:13

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This is a simple error .. you need to use binary mode for the transfer. According to the FTP specifications, systems are supposed to translate the "newline" character to whatever makes sense for them locally. Unix systems traditionally use just a line feed (0x0A) for a newline character. MS-DOS …

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Re: mTCP 2013-04-26 is available

Posted on 2013-05-23, 15:01

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Just a warning - a user reported to me that Netcat was not working correctly in this version. It turned out to be a build script problem. Nothing else was affected. I have placed a new version of the executables on the web site with a new version number. Please update if you use Netcat or ever thing …

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Re: My ongoing 386DX/40 build , some stabillity advice welcomed

Posted on 2013-05-18, 23:41

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Keropi is obviously a fan, but I think it is even simpler than what he wrote. Take a look here for an overview of what mTCP does: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ And then download it from Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/ The short story is that mTCP gives you a small fast FTP client, FTP …

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Re: mTCP 2013-04-26 is available

Posted on 2013-04-27, 16:05

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Sorry about that .. I saw "Announcements" in Milliways and my brain turned off there ..

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mTCP 2013-04-26 is available

Posted on 2013-04-26, 18:54

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And nearly another year has passed by ... This version includes: All: improved TCP/IP lost packet and retransmit support All: DHCP lease expiration detection and warning IRCjr: mIRC color codes, improved logging support, 132 column awareness, bug fixes FTP client: user input can be longer now (2 …

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Re: Has anyone gotten a realtek 8169 working with a packet driver?

Posted on 2013-04-09, 04:09

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When the packet driver installs, what MAC address does it report? Does it seem like a reasonable MAC address for the card? If the MAC address is wrong that is a sign that the packet driver is not actually talking to the Ethernet card. I would not expect that on a PCI Ethernet card, but who knows. …

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Re: 5.25" floppy

Posted on 2013-02-20, 00:57

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You need boot diskettes. DOS 3.3 would probably be fine. DOS 5 or 6.x will work but are probably overkill. An easy solution for data transfer is to get an old Microsolutions Backpack drive with a 3.5" 1.44MB drive in it. You need a small device driver to use it, but it makes exchanging data very …

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Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-02-13, 13:55

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Since you have a NIC, check out mTCP. You can run an ftp server on your 486, and just ftp in to transfer files. I launch mine with a 3 line batch script. And remember, it is not just FTP server ... - FTP client - Telnet client - IRC client - SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) client - DHCP client …

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Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-02-13, 13:52

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It depends on your version of DOS. Original DOS versions (5 and 6) support the original FAT16, which limits each partition to 2GB. That includes the extended partition, so basically you can have a drive letter for your primary partition and another drive letter for a logical drive in the extended …

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Re: FTP client

Posted on 2013-01-09, 06:03

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I use the "megabuild" for quite a bit of mTCP development and testing. If jdosbox gives you a virtual serial port linked to the host then you can configure mTCP to use PPP or SLIP over it. You will need a PPP or SLIP daemon running on the other side; Linux/Unix machines provide this. I have PPP/SLIP …

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Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-26, 01:06

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And of course, it was good - thanks again! Mike

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Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 14:24

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Ok - I was on the right track about how ColorPaint starts up ... I'll give it a whirl. That was very quick and very detailed - I thought I knew a thing or two about PCjrs. ;-0 Regards, Mike

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Re: Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 10:56

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My bad - DOSBox would be a more appropriate place. -Mike

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Adding arbitrary ROM images to the memory map

Posted on 2012-10-22, 01:17

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I'm probably going to kick myself when somebody gives me an obvious answer ... Is there a way to insert code (a ROM extension) into the memory map at startup? In particular, I'd like to have a PCjr cartridge resident during the emulation but I don't want to use the BOOT option to get it. My emulated …

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Re: Can't load packet driver for D-link PCI ethernet card in DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-07-23, 23:46

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This will help too .. http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_virtual_environments.html (Look at the first section, which is for DOSBox.) To summarize: - Straight DOSBox doesn't have this type of networking built in. You need the HAL9000 megabuild. - The HAL9000 megabuild emuates an NE2000 card. You do not …

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Re: Older machines for general home use

Posted on 2012-07-03, 01:08

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Lost forever? Not really ... ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/ Back then the primary method of distribution was BBS systems. But SIMTEL.NET was around as an FTP archive, operated by the US government. If you had access to a Unix machine you could browse the FTP archive, transfer what you needed, …

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Re: Older machines for general home use

Posted on 2012-06-30, 18:33

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Back 25 or 30 years ago here is what a person might be doing with their home computer: Productivity: - WordStar 3.31 or an early version of WordPerfect - Microsoft Multi-plan or Lotus 1-2-3 - Crosstalk, Procomm, Telix or Kermit (for modem use) - The PrintShop - Dbase ][ - PC Paint - Fontrix …

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Re: Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?

Posted on 2012-05-31, 23:52

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And it's out there! Download the latest from http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/ . Here are the major changes: Power awareness for virtual machines and laptops IRCjr fixes to improve compatibility with more servers "Howto" style documentation for setting up SLIP and PPP with mTCP FTPSrv requires …

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Re: Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?

Posted on 2012-04-21, 01:09

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Increasing the timeout for idle connections is trivial, but I don't ever want to make it unlimited. Right now I think it is 30 minutes - I'll bump it up to a few hours. (As an aside, in case anybody questions how this is relevant to DOSBox - it works in DOSBox, and I do most of my testing in DOSBox. …

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