Hi all,
Thank you all for your replies! I was assuming network transfers only,
as this seems the only proper way, and I've been surprised how many of
us still use non-networked file transfers methods :)
Here below I list all methods that have been mentioned, along with a
short comment on each.
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 12:18:58PM +0200,
Mateusz Viste wrote:
[...]
> Only problem is to have a humanly convenient way
> to use FTP from within FreeDOS.
How hard (if at all possible) would it be to port
lftp to FreeDOS? From the Description page on its
web site:
"LFTP is a sophisticat
Not booting from USB but reading FLASH on USB as a drive letter like a
floppy.
I do it all the time. I read the camera flash and play the movies and
look at pictures
on flash. Flash is usually drive E: Unfornunately you can only read one
flash
at a time unless you can run DUSE which only works on a
On 8/4/2014 3:18 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> * Running a mTCP FTP server on the DOS machine (Matej, Michael, Ulrich)
> - this is nice, although I'd prefer keeping the DOS PC as a simple
> 'client'.
I am confused by this. Both the FTP client and FTP server are DOS EXE
programs. Why would runn
Hi,
I see - it still looks like some neat BIOS emulation thing, though. Does
it mean that the USB drive must be inserted before booting the PC (even
if not booting from the USB drive itself)?
I guess you're lucky to have some smart BIOS there ;)
Anyway, it's still 'sneakernet-like' technology,
Hi Mike,
Yes, of course it's a totally cool solution. The problem is purely
conceptual - I already have a host that acts as a "server" for many
things, and have configured a local anonymous FTP server on it, so I'd
prefer to use this.
The DOS computer, like all other user-handled computers at
2014-08-04 12:18 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste :
> Here below I list all methods that have been mentioned, along with a
> short comment on each.
>
> * Floppies/CD (Zbigniew, Rugxulo)
>- really slow. floppies are hard to get nowadays. Burning a CD every
> time I need to transfer a few KiBs of files
On 08/04/2014 04:10 PM, Zbigniew wrote:
> Still you can use ZIP/LS-floppies: 100 MB of place (no need for
> burning) means a lot of space for DOS-programs/data.
Yes, the place is not a problem itself, but if/when I need to synch
files a few times a day between my PCes, only networked transfers ar
2014-08-04 16:23 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste :
> A samba share is another very valid approach, although IIRC there's not
> much 'free' alternatives there, and the only serious driver (from MS)
> consumes lots of conventional memory which I'd prefer to keep for other
> usages...
Switching among many
> ... but if/when I need to synch files a few times a day between my
> PCes ...
I obviously don't understand your precise situation, but is it possible to
change your procedures so that you don't need to sync the PC's multiple times a
day? That is, just do the syncing once a day/week when you a
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Zbigniew wrote:
>
> Switching among many startup configurations is something we can't
> avoid in DOS. I was pondering one day, whether could be possible to
> "reset" DOS without resetting entire machine... it would make such
> switch much faster. Just some kind of
Hi Bret,
Of course most human problems can be avoided with good organization and
procedures. Most of my "file exchanging" needs could be aggregated into
blocks I could schedule. But I'd prefer to avoid such ultra-organization
during my hobby time :)
Anyway, there's one very specific case that
Why are you using FreeDOS?
Personally I have three main reasons for which I stay with FreeDOS:
1.
I like Borland Turbo products and with FreeDOS I can run them in natural
environment. (BTW I was very pleasured when I found this location
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pd
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Jaroslav Beran wrote:
> Why are you using FreeDOS?
I started using PCs in the days when the original IBM-PC with 4.77mhz
Intel 8088 processor, CGA graphics, 256-640K of RAM and dual 360K full
height 5.25" floppy drives was first appearing on corporate desktops,
usu
I'm not using it yet, but want to because of some amateur radio software
that was written to run in DOS and won't run in Windows.
jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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For almost 30 years I have written various computer-based tests for
studies in psychology and related fields. These required timing
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devices, so that DOS (initially AppleDOS and then PC-DOS) was the
operating system of choice. Esse
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> I'm not using it yet, but want to because of some amateur radio software
> that was written to run in DOS and won't run in Windows.
Which ones? I have several friends who are hams. One is a Linux
user, and the other is in a pure Windows enviro
If it's radio equipment that the software manages, it might not run in the
Windows command line or DOSBox. It probably needs direct access to the
hardware, which I don't think either provide.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:42 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Corbin Davenport
wrote:
>
> If it's radio equipment that the software manages, it might not run in the
> Windows command line or DOSBox. It probably needs direct access to the
> hardware, which I don't think either provide.
Multitasking OSes don't provide underly
Actually if the CPU is too fast in DOS the software cannot program the
radio so most ham radio operator's look for slow CPU's (old computers)
and load DOS as the sole operating system this is true especially for
older Motorola radio's - Johnny KD5LWU Cortez, CO
On 8/4/2014 6:14 PM, dmccunney wro
On 8/4/2014 7:10 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> BTW, I also tried the FTP client that comes with mTCP, but it proved to
> be hardly useable on my PC. Dunno what's wrong, the symptom is that it
> reacts very poorly to keyboard input, at every keypress, I have to wait
> like 1s or 2 for the character to
> Not booting from USB but reading FLASH on USB as a drive letter like a
> floppy.
> I do it all the time. I read the camera flash and play the movies and
> look at pictures
> on flash. Flash is usually drive E: Unfornunately you can only read one
> flash
> at a time unless you can run DUSE which o
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