mTCP NetDrive lets you mount floppy disk and hard drive images over the network to your DOS machine, allowing you to examine a floppy image or add gigabytes of network attached storage in seconds. It runs on all versions of DOS including FreeDOS, requires a minimal amount of RAM, and will work across WiFi or even across the Internet. The server runs under Windows (10 or 11) or Linux (x86 or Arm) and requires no special permissions or extra packages to run.
The newest version has a big new feature - "Undo" support for hard drives. Imagine being able to undo accidents, corruption, or just revert your drive images to an earlier state in seconds, right from inside of DOS. This version of NetDrive does that, with no additional memory requirements on the DOS side. Enabling this feature is as simple as creating a zero length file on the server side. Other changes include support for longer drive image names, better error handling when a UDP packet is lost, and some minor performance improvements. For FreeDOS specifically I finally debugged and fixed the glitch where the placeholder RAM disk would not show its directory listing. (The placeholder RAM disk is used when there is no connected drive image.) See the documentation and download it at https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html. Support is by email or through the mTCP mailing list. -Mike PS: This is new code (less than a year old) and I'm actively modifying it at a pretty rapid pace. Source code is not available yet. I will release the source code after things slow down, as I did with mTCP originally. This precludes it from being directly distributed it with FreeDOS for now, but I think it is necessary to ensure the quality of the code and to avoid unnecessary churn.
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