X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:12:47 -0700 Subject: Re: File transfer util in DR-DOS? From: David Oberst To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <001101c3e86b$e2992d60$17fea8c0@dualdell> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk on 1/31/04 7:34 PM, Ben A L Jemmett at ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk wrote: > The old VLM client for DOS is the only one that will access a Personal NetWare > server. At a protocol level, PNW and NetWare itself are incompatible, so the > other Novell clients won't talk to PNW. I was afraid of this. Oh well, on to the serial port. Our oldest Mac laptop actually did have a serial port, but it is now in the land of disrepair. I'll have to find someone to borrow a PC from. >> 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? > > There is, and it's called FILELINK. It's got the usual bootstrap routine so > you can start it on one machine and copy it over to the other end without > having to install DR-DOS (if you don't already have it at the other end). Thanks, -- David Oberst/NWT Bureau of Statistics/Yellowknife, NWT, Canada [Explore Canada's Arctic]