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Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR (Developers)

posted by mceric, Germany, 29.06.2023, 21:59

Years ago, I would have recommended File Maven:

https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm

https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdosfaq.htm

A free file manager with transfer functionality. You can only use the feature in the file manager, so there is no network drive.

You can also use a DOS port of SMBCLIENT to manually interact with Samba / Windows network drives without giving them a DOS drive letter.

Mateusz wrote EtherDFS 5 years ago, a network drive with a DOS client and a Linux host. The DOS side only takes 7 kB of RAM:

https://etherdfs.sourceforge.net/

A more simplistic, sector-oriented ethernet floppy is his ethflop, which takes only 2 kB of RAM. People may remember how large the MSCLIENT network drive drivers were.

https://ethflop.sourceforge.net/

This could be ported to use a serial port / COM port for I/O and a DOS version of the server side could be added, I guess

We also have VMSmount by Eduardo, which lets you use drives of a VMWARE host when DOS is running inside a VM. It also has some awareness of the relationship between Unicode and 20 popular DOS codepages:

https://github.com/eduardoc%61sino/vmsmount

The surname of Eduardo is an evil word according to BTTR, I had to munge the link: It will initially open as 404, but when you then copy and paste the URL shown in your address bar again to load the demunged version, it will magically work. Or just manually type an a instead of the %61. Oh well

I would appreciate if ETHFLOP could be added to the FreeDOS distro, ETHERDFS and VMSMOUNT are already there

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Complete thread:

• Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - Ruud, 29.06.2023, 12:00 (Developers)
  • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - dggionco, 29.06.2023, 12:27
    • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - Ruud, 29.06.2023, 16:41
    • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - Oso2k, 29.06.2023, 21:54
    • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - dggionco, 02.08.2023, 14:42
  • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - mceric, 29.06.2023, 21:59
    • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - Ruud, 30.06.2023, 12:21
  • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - bocke, 19.07.2023, 10:45
    • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - bocke, 19.07.2023, 23:51
      • Looking for open source replacement of INTERLNK and INTERSVR - bocke, 02.08.2023, 10:11