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First post, by melbourne

Posted on 2021-10-01, 01:30

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I've got a system I use for DOS games, and it's running DOS7 from Win98 with a 6GB FAT32 partition. But what I've always wanted is to have networking (in particular shared drives). Windows DOS doesn't do that, the networking was removed from io.sys/msdos.sys and implemented in Windows. And I'd rather not load the virtualized DOS in Win98, because it messes up timing (and I've only got 1M memory and a 586 processor).

Is there a DOS clone / version that supported DOS networking (file server) and also FAT32?

Reply 1 of 5, by xcomcmdr

Posted on 2021-10-01, 07:22

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FreeDOS ?

But it behaves badly with games and Windows 9X...

Reply 2 of 5, by dr_st

Posted on 2021-10-01, 07:30

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melbourne wrote on 2021-10-01, 01:30:

the networking was removed from io.sys/msdos.sys and implemented in Windows

Removed? You mean it was there to begin with?

I'd imagine there is a DOS network stack can do what you want, somehow.

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Reply 3 of 5, by konc

Posted on 2021-10-01, 07:58

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If you just want to transfer files over the network, the easiest way to achieve this is mTCP + FTP

Reply 4 of 5, by oso2k

Posted on 2021-10-04, 18:11

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Youtube has a lot of DOS Networking videos (FreeDOS and MS-DOS).

FreeDOS also has a few tutorials that can walk you through. You can also substitute MS-DOS if that works better for you.

http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networ … etworking_HowTo
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networ … _-_Introduction
http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networ … reeDOS_complete

Reply 5 of 5, by melbourne

Posted on 2021-10-08, 09:57

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dr_st wrote on 2021-10-01, 07:30:

melbourne wrote on 2021-10-01, 01:30:

the networking was removed from io.sys/msdos.sys and implemented in Windows
Removed? You mean it was there to begin with?

I'd imagine there is a DOS network stack can do what you want, somehow.

"share.exe" was introduced in DOS 3.x, as a way to provide record locking on parts of shared files. Since DOS was a single user / single process OS, the main reason for wanting to "share" files was when people connected using some kind of network.

From programs.txt:

"
Share.exe no longer works in MS-DOS mode
To support FAT32, SHARE support has been disabled in the real-mode MS-DOS kernel (sharing support is still provided under protected-mode Windows 98).
"

The network stack isn't a problem: the problem is that file system doesn't support sharing in MS-DOS 7.

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