I have never heard of SFTP before. I understand from your message above that I need some SFTP client. I had a look on the net, and found something, and the following webpage shows the client requirements, and it is W95 and upwards. This package is a server and a client. I could try that, perhaps?
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/requirements#client_requirements
Also, I thought I'd mess about with this, just a bit more. I ran winipcfg inside W98's "Run box", and it did nothing for at least one minute, then displayed some error message. I shut down the machine, and rebooted and tried again. This time it worked:
In the screenshots above, I removed the numbers. Can someone log on to my machine if they know those numbers? Also, am I right in thinking that I can set up the NetGear modem by launching an internet browser (such as IE), and then typing in some weird looking number address in to the address bar: 192.168.0.1, and up pops some settings for the NetGear box?
If true, it's a pity that I can't get past the W98 IE set up screens, because when I launch IE, it wants to know what modem I am using before I can use IE. Well, I threw my dial up modem out about 20 billion years ago (slight exageration), and I can't get past the IE set up screen, to get access to the IE address bar.
Also, I've been thinking about connecting 2 W98SE machines together, again. How about I get a couple of these PCI NICs from ebay. They are very cheap, and they support W98. The advert is below. Thanks a lot.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/250591193104