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.
* 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 seems wasteful.
* Double boot - either to copy files from one partition to another, or
move data using 'modern' means (Matej, Dennis, John)
- rebooting into another OS just to copy some files can be a pain..
* Booting from USB as a mean of accessing USB flash drives (Matej, Dale)
- as above, requires a reboot to exchange files. plus, not every PC
have USB. and these that have it, don't necessarily know how to boot
from it.
* 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'.
* Running a FTP server on remote server, and connecting from DOS via a
FTP client (Michael, Rugxulo)
- this is definitely my preferred way so far. And it would be perfect
if there was a nice FTP client for DOS. There are a few CLI FTP clients
already, but using FTP over CLI is not very convenient. A NC-style FTP
tool would be awesome. I didn't know about Necromancer DOS Navigator's
ability to access FTP drives (mostly because I was using an older
version of NDN without this feature) - this looks like the perfect tool.
Unfortunately it looks like NDN doesn't like my networking
environnement. It's able to connect to my FTP server one time out of 20,
and then the connectivity goes down after few seconds anyway. I will
have to check this out. Not sure how its TCP/IP stack ("SabreTooth") is
supposed to be configurable..
* Using a CF->IDE adapter (Alain)
- Requires a reboot (or even worse - a halt/change CF/start operation).
* Using parallel transfers via winlink (Ulrich)
- this sounds nice, but as far as I understand it requires a Win3.x
OS on the "host" computer. And a parallel interface (which I don't have
on my laptop).
Finally, the FTP method looks like the fastest/most convenient one.
Setting up a FTP server on a remote host is easy. Only problem is to
have a humanly convenient way to use FTP from within FreeDOS. The latest
version (2010) of NDN looks very promising, and it's the only DOS FTP
client known to me that presents a user-friendly interface.
Unfortunately it's either buggy or incompatible with something I have,
or I don't know how to configure its exotic (FreePascal?) networking
stack. But definitely worth some investigations!
thanks,
Mateusz
On 08/01/2014 02:23 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Hello,
>
> That's a question to those of you who happen to still keep an oldish
> hardware machine dedicated to DOS tasks...
>
> How do you transfer files between your main computer and your
> FreeDOS-powered machine ?
>
> Myself, I haven't found any really creative solution so far, and rely on
> one of these:
> - using the DOS port of SCP (this works both ways, but not very
> user-friendly)
> - putting files on my gopher server, and fetching them from my DOS PC
> using a gopher client (works only if I need to copy files TO the DOS
> workstation, but not the other way around)
>
> Obviously, both solutions are quite annoying. Best would be to have some
> kind of file manager similar to Norton Commander that would allow
> accessing a remote network drive from DOS...
>
> Just wondering how others do.
>
> Back in old days I was using the LapLink application. It was primarily
> targeted to serial/parallel file transfers, but IIRC since v5.00 network
> transfers were supported, too. Anyway, it's not really an option
> anymore, since it needs a LapLink program running on both sides, so it
> would still be a nice (although non-free) solution for DOS -> DOS
> transfers, but not if your 'real' workstation is running Linux or
> FreeBSD (or Windows, but hopefully nobody uses that anymore) ;)
>
> Mateusz
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