Thanks for the new test release! I've shared a news item about it on the website so folks can download it and help test it.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:45 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
