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 home, have a DHCP address, and doesn't get the same IP all the time (sure, I could set a static lease for the DOS computer...). Also, when I'm playing with the DOS machine, I usually prefer not to move around the house from one PC to another, and just sit behind the DOS machine, having access to whatever I need. So no reason to be confused, the "DOS PC as FTP server" is a perfectly valid (and working) solution, just not fitting exactly in my (very personal) needs. The only thing I need to look for now is a user-friendly FTP client I could use from the DOS PC. Currently I use either curl (if I need to fetch) or the wattcp FTP client (if I need to push), but since I discovered the FTP capabilities of the latest NDN (thanks Rugxulo!), I will definitely try to make it work, as it's *exactly* what I was looking for. Too bad it craps on me so far, but this must be some configuration problem - Rugxulo implied it worked for him, so there must be a way to make it work on my PC, too. 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 appear on the screen. Typing the "anonymous" login itself is quite frustrating already, not talking about any further get/put/ls magic. Any idea why it's behaving this way? (this might be a subject better suited offlist, if you'd like me to perform any debugging steps, which I'll be glad to follow, if you think there's a point to look for some bug there). cheers, Mateusz On 08/04/2014 03:26 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > 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 running the FTP server change the nature of your PC? > > If you want a minimal solution, a command line FTP client is perfect. > If you don't like command line FTP clients, well, better clients for DOS > really do not exist. You can run the FTP server on DOS instead and run > whatever client you want on your more advanced machines. That's not a > terribly compromise to make to take advantage of a solution that works > *today*. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
