X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:53:56 -0700 Subject: File transfer util in DR-DOS? From: David Oberst To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I'm trying to get a 600K file off a small store's computer system. They have three ancient Compaq Presario 425 machines (486, from 1993), which appear to be networked using coax (presumably Ethernet). The machines themselves seem to be running DR-DOS (7.02, I think) and Personal Netware. The file is on a server volume which is viewable by the other two terminals, but unfortunately both terminal machines I have access to have non-working floppys - they seem to be incredibly dirty, and won't read or format a disk - I tried cleaning one with no luck. The machines don't have CD-ROM, and no other way to easily get files on or off the machine. I may be able to connect a laptop to one of the machines via serial cable. Is there by any chance any sort of terminal or file transfer program that would be available on a basic DR-DOS install? If not, I'd probably have to just do a COPY to the serial port and live with any noise - it is a text file, so if I copy two or three times I should be able to compare and find any differences. I not in a position to do any heroic hardware upgrades on the machines, but I do have an old 10-T hub which also has a coax port, and I was going to plug the network cable from one of the computers into this, along with a laptop. I'm hoping that will get me on the network. Once I am, will a Netware client on the laptop be able to see the Personal Netware server and log on for file sharing? Does anyone know what transport protocol Personal Netware uses (IPX or IP)? I have a Mac laptop and evaluation versions of a NetWare client with both IPX and IP options, but I know nothing about whether Personal Netware looks like real Netware to a client. To top it off, the Mac laptop doesn't have a serial port, so I'll have to find something else to try that. Oh, the joys of ancient hardware - it has been a long time since I did anything with DOS... -- David Oberst, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada [Explore Canada's Arctic]