Subj : fantasy & folklore pt2 To : David Drummond From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 08:16 pm David Drummond wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: DD> Roy DD> 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. DD> 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. DD> What sort of network card in your DOS box? I could attempt to make DD> up a driver disk to suit and e-mail the image(s) to you. It's a 3c509, as are a bunch of the other network cards I have here. A driver isn't the problem in and of itself, or at least I don't think so. I have packet drivers that seem to work with it. It's more what application am I gonna run under DV that will work and not upset the rest of what's going on in the box here. DD> <...> 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. DD> BinkD is a program that used BinkP protocol to send BinkleyTerm DD> compatible mail packets to another similarly equipped sustem DD> directly over the Internet. In most respects it behaves like the DD> mailer portion of BinkleyTerm, accepting and sending packets from a DD> Binkley style outbound (and inbound) and spawning a tosser. Ah, ok. I wouldn't have any use for that currently, then, as the only 'net connection I have at present is email via uucp. No ftp, http, or any of that other stuff... DD> It's quite happy to cohabit with BinkleyTerm on the same (Linux) DD> 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? DD> Can't remember the exact name, something like DOS Client for MS DD> LAN. I originally got it from the MS Web site. Oh. If it's that m$ stuff then I might even have it here. There were a number of different packages that they had which offered varying degrees of networking support under dos, and I found them all to be rather confusing to try and do anything with. I even noticed the other day that I still have some directories stuffed with some of that software, having put it aside some time back. If I ever decide to get back to that and pursue it rather than migration then I suppose I can get back to messing with it, but I'm not sure I want to. First there's getting it working, and then there's getting it working with Desqview... DD> I can attempt to e-mail you the diskette images if you wish (2 x DD> 1.44Mb). Maybe a list of what's on them would be a good place to start? If it turns out this is something I have (there were a few packages, all of them diskette images it seems, and all similarly named to boot), then there's no point in getting them again. OTOH, I might not have them but something else. DD> If I cannot find the originals I could make you a boot diskette DD> (from the diskettes we use at work) that you could copy the guts of DD> to your hardrive. What is your NIC in the DOS machine? 3c509, as mentioned above. --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .