DOS ain't dead - mTCP 2011-10-01 Release

mTCP 2011-10-01 Release (Announce)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 03.10.2011, 15:07

> > - FTP server: Change drive letter and path handling to improve
> > compatibility with more clients; add a MOTD feature; fix a bug that
> slowly
> > leaked data sockets during error conditions; rewrite the local screen
> > handling to improve performance and add some local status commands;
> improve
> > error detection and reporting on the password file; etc.
>
> Is there anything stored in your PCJr. FTP server ? I tried to
> connect to it using the FTP client of the Lynx 2.8.5 browser and it
> did not return anything; I tried also with WGET and it did return an
> empty index directory.
> The connection was a PPP dial-up using dosppp and the O/S was EDRDOS.

There was, but I had it up and running for testing before I released the code. I finally shut the machine down after four or five days of continuous running.

(I'm not ready to leave it on full time .. for something mundane like an FTP server. A telnet BBS would be more worthy for vintage hardware.)

On a related note, there is a bug in the FTP server and the way it interacts with FreeDOS when looking for valid drives. The nature of the bug says that it should miss network drives; it is missing *all* drives. I'm working on understanding the bug and will have it fixed ASAP.

Mike

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Complete thread:

mTCP 2011-10-01 Release - mbbrutman, 02.10.2011, 17:44
- mTCP 2011-10-01 Release - jassenna, 03.10.2011, 02:48
  - mTCP 2011-10-01 Release - mbbrutman, 03.10.2011, 15:07
    - mTCP 2011-10-04 Release - Rugxulo, 13.10.2011, 22:13
      - mTCP 2011-10-04 Release - mbbrutman, 14.10.2011, 15:10
        mTCP 2011-10-29 Release - Rugxulo, 06.11.2011, 00:09
        mTCP 2011-10-29 Release - mbbrutman, 06.11.2011, 16:25