OK, Rugxulo, thanks for the clarification and further tips. On 6/17/2015 7:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:32 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: >> Now I have found mTCP, available in the FreeDOS install CD's Net collection, >> or in a newer version from developer Michael Brutman's web site at >> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ > It's not newer, it's the same one: > > 1). http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mtcp > 2). http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_2013-05-23_upx.zip > 3). > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/mtcp/mTCP_2013-05-23_upx.zip > >> For use behind a hardware firewall (my router), I just set it up to do >> anonymous FTP with read/write access to the entire file system, then I just >> run it as needed. (It's not a TSR, so you can't do anything else while it's >> running.) > I've never tried this particular functionality. I think he warns > against it (implying you should be very careful), but it does (IIRC) > support "shelling out" while running. > >> From my Windows machine, I just use Windows Explorer or a web browser and >> open ftp://<IP-address-of-the-server>. > There's also a Win32 command-line version of FTP under > %windir%\System32\ftp.exe . You might also be able to use > Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN), but it's been a few years since I > tried FTP with that. > > 1). http://ndn.muxe.com (not loading, sigh) > > 2a). ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilfile/navigatr.exe > 2b). ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilfile/navigatw.exe > >> Reportedly you can use its DHCP client for anything else that needs it, but >> I don't know how to do that. This may be of interest to me as I turn to get >> reacquainted with Arachne. I don't know whether it has its own DHCP client >> or another provision. > Most other apps seem to use Watt-32, e.g. Wget or Links2 or similar > DJGPP stuff. IIRC, you first have to "set WATTCP.CFG=c:\utils" with > WATTCP.CFG there containing "my_ip = dhcp" (or similar). That's what I > do under my MetaDOS floppy, with packet driver, and it works. > > There's also m2wat.c , which someone whipped up a few months ago. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15414.html
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