Re: Anyone know a DOS FTP Client with GUI or shell

Posted on 2024-11-30, 19:07

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I remember that summary, but now six years later there are things that need to be updated. mTCP now has proper hostname support. You don't need to memorize IP addresses. mTCP now has a "network attached storage" device driver. I don't think that summary ever mentioned EtherDFS.

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Re: Anyone know a DOS FTP Client with GUI or shell

Posted on 2024-11-30, 02:02

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Hi, your post is unclear in places. Are you able to make the command line FTP client or the FTP server work on your system? If those don't work then a GUI isn't going to help anything.

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Re: Win98SE tower: better network to DOS?

Posted on 2024-11-08, 15:26

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At this point the OP really should drop the networking idea and just figure out how to get a hard drive (IDE or CF) into the available space.

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Re: Win98SE tower: better network to DOS?

Posted on 2024-11-08, 04:38

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I know mTCP works under Win98 DOS; I test it there in a FAT32 partition. The other programs should generally be fine if they are using DOS services to open and close files. Win 98 DOS will just simply hide the extra metadata that the older programs don't ask for; I think you have to use new dos …

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Re: Win98SE tower: better network to DOS?

Posted on 2024-11-05, 18:35

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Uh, that limit was 2GB *per drive letter* on later versions of DOS. Also look at EtherDFS to see if that meets your needs. And plan on getting a network card no matter what, as trying to move files over the serial port is an exercise in frustration.

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Re: Win98SE tower: better network to DOS?

Posted on 2024-11-04, 04:34

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mTCP NetDrive is a block device driver that lets you use remote storage hosted by another machine. It's great for adding storage to an old machine, but it's block level storage - you can't share the storage with another machine at the same time. (That would require filesystem level sharing.) A good …

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Re: mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

Posted on 2024-11-02, 20:50

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That would be great ... DOS 2.x only has FAT12 available DOS 3.x has FAT16 available. (Original FAT16, still limited to 32MB drives but more efficient than FAT12.) Compaq DOS 3.31 has FAT16B available too. (Up to 2GB partitions.) DOS 4.x and up have FAT16B available DOS is kind of stupid and it …

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Re: mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

Posted on 2024-11-02, 18:45

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What version of DOS are you using on the Amstrad? The symptoms you describe sound like the Amstrad was interpreting the drive as a FAT12 drive and not FAT16. Oh it is right in the picture. When you used net drive to create the image did you specify FAT16 or FAT16b? DOS 3.2 can only use FAT12 or …

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Re: mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

Posted on 2024-10-25, 02:45

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I cheated a bit to keep the device driver simple, so what NetDrive is presenting is not a full packet driver. If the programs that try to use it request all packets they will work fine with it. If they try to request IP packets specifically and then ARP packets specifically, they will not work. I …

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Re: mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

Posted on 2024-10-22, 04:31

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Thank you for the testing - it is appreciated! I released the new mTCP yesterday. It's basically the same thing you tested, but you probably want to update just to be on the same code as everybody else.

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Re: Using Ethernet on Windows 9x/XP PCs without connecting to the Internet

Posted on 2024-10-18, 15:00

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Hm. Why so conservative? :) Are we getting old or are afraid of trying new things? ;) I thought the retro hobby was because of fascination about older tech, rather than just the usability and comfortability standpoint. I mean, where's the point if we all end up using TFTs, CompactFlash cards as IDE …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-06, 23:48

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I think the lack of an antenna on the PicoMem is going to be a longer term problem ... I love what he did there, but putting a WiFi device inside of an old metal box just isn't going to work well.

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-06, 16:46

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I can add it to the long term list to investigate adding. Looking at the RFC it does seem irritating if you are in ASCII mode because the restart point is now dependent on how many newline characters are in the file, which is something that you have to scan the file first to find. How often are you …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-02, 17:21

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It is an interesting topic. The state of a TCP socket is basically some large counters and some flag bits. If you use shared memory and you define a way to pass those back and forth, Telnet or other programs could shell out to a different program, have it pick up and do something, and then return …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-02, 03:37

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OT, but the Pareto principle predates Unix by quite a bit ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-01, 18:15

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Thanks, and I have that on the todo list. It will be a simpler C program that people can compile for whatever platform they need. But as a result it won't be multi-threaded or support the advanced features, like journaled disks.

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-01, 17:07

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Keenmaster486 I have 3509 cards and I've never seen this. I would: Read the mTCP docs on how to set the performance parameters. Your machines and card might need bigger buffers. Read the documentation about how to collect traces. Videos really don't help me understand what might be broken. I need to …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:53

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Can you even get network cards for their bus? There's a ton of C-Bus Ethernet cards and most models from the mid-90s onward have PCI slots too where you could plug in a PCI one. Atm you're basically stuck with Microsoft LAN Manager, Novell Netware, or doing stuff through Windows. By not working …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-09-29, 23:11

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I would really like an overwrite option for the FTP server. Something like a FTPSRV_ALLOW_OVERWRITE option in the config file. I understand for internet connected FTP servers with anonymous access this is not a desired option but I (and I guess most people) only use it internally to update/copy …

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Re: Call for ideas/fixes for the next mTCP version

Posted on 2024-09-29, 04:13

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I don't have a PC-98 machine to work with. Can you even get network cards for their bus? If there are network cards, do they have different versions of packet drivers to make them work?

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