Subj : fantasy & folklore pt2 To : Roy J. Tellason From : David Drummond Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 11:15 am Roy 26 Nov 01 18:12, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond: DD>> The MS DOS network package allows you to MOUNT the resources onto DD>> the DOS machine, not EXPORT them. It is a client only. RJT> Even still. If I could "mount" a share that's sitting on the linux RJT> machine I could copy files to it lots quicker than messing around RJT> with ftp. Yes indeedy. RJT> There's a dos utility I have here that'll do things like copy a file RJT> only if it doesn't already exist in the destination directory, and RJT> all sorts of variations on that theme. It'd be immensely useful if RJT> I could figure out other ways to do the same thing on other RJT> platforms, or via ftp for example. What sort of network card in your DOS box? I could attempt to make up a driver disk to suit and e-mail the image(s) to you. DD>> For a while my BBS was a hybrid across the LAN, part Linux and part DD>> OS/2. RJT> The original plan here was to move to OS/2. That never quite got RJT> finished, even though I have a complete partition with OS/2 Warp RJT> Connect installed on this machine and an HPFS partition with a copy RJT> of my files section and the bbs software setup (OS/2 versions RJT> though), in addition to having configured a separate 486 box to RJT> help me work out the details of this stuff. I just never got around RJT> to it, and then I got going with linux, after which i stopped even RJT> thinking about it. I may end up with such a hybrid, I don't RJT> know... DD>> Even now I do the nodelist compiling from a Win9x machine on the DD>> LAN (into a Samba share). I never did get Fastlist for Linux to DD>> compile. DD>> This is not really an issue as BinkD doen't use a normally compiled DD>> nodelist. RJT> I have no idea what "BinkD" is or any of the later versions in terms RJT> of their capabilities, I'm still running v2.60a here. One of those RJT> "if it ain't broke..." things, I guess. BinkD is a program that used BinkP protocol to send BinkleyTerm compatible mail packets to another similarly equipped sustem directly over the Internet. In most respects it behaves like the mailer portion of BinkleyTerm, accepting and sending packets from a Binkley style outbound (and inbound) and spawning a tosser. It's quite happy to cohabit with BinkleyTerm on the same (Linux) box. RJT>> It'd be easier if Scott Dudley would get around to releasing the RJT>> source for current Maximus, so that a port could be accomplished in RJT>> short order, and then I'd have a lot less to worry about. DD>> Run Max on the DOS box, with all of the files/messagebases on Samba DD>> shares on the Linux box, accessed over the LAN. Then slowly migrate DD>> what ever apps you can to Linux equivalents. RJT> I could do that -- which dos software was it that you said supported RJT> accessing those shares? Can't remember the exact name, something like DOS Client for MS LAN. I originally got it from the MS Web site. I can attempt to e-mail you the diskette images if you wish (2 x 1.44Mb). If I cannot find the originals I could make you a boot diskette (from the diskettes we use at work) that you could copy the guts of to your hardrive. What is your NIC in the DOS machine? Regards, David --- Msged/LNX TE 06 (pre) * Origin: Godzone, Oz. (3:640/305) .