DOS ain't dead - A new mTCP is available (2023-03-31)

mbbrutman

Washington, USA,
01.04.2023, 02:48

A new mTCP is available (2023-03-31) (Announce)

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html

From the release notes:

* Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
* HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
* TCP/IP library fixes
* New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and VirtualBox
* Other misc fixes and upgrades

Enjoy!
Mike

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Berlin, Germany,
01.04.2023, 19:25

@ mbbrutman

A new mTCP is available (2023-03-31)

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> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
>
> From the
> release
> notes:
>
> * Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
> * HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
> * TCP/IP library fixes
> * New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and
> VirtualBox
> * Other misc fixes and upgrades

No time to test or use it, but thanks man! :-)

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mbbrutman

Washington, USA,
01.04.2023, 23:24

@ rr

A new mTCP is available (2023-03-31)

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> > http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
> >
> > From the
> >
> release
> > notes:
> >
> > * Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
> > * HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
> > * TCP/IP library fixes
> > * New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and
> > VirtualBox
> > * Other misc fixes and upgrades
>
> No time to test or use it, but thanks man! :-)

It will be there when you need it, just like this forum. :)

Danke,
Mike

dggionco Buenos Aires - Argentina, 22.12.2023, 14:56 @ mbbrutman	mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10) Post reply
	mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10) NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image. See: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html

mceric

Germany,
22.12.2023, 18:56

@ dggionco

mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)

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> mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)
>
> NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk
> image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device...

Cool, can it also be used to make local block devices remotely accessible and is there a read-only mode to make in particular that mode less risky?

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mbbrutman

Washington, USA,
22.12.2023, 19:10

@ mceric

mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)

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> > mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)
> >
> > NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk
> > image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device...
>
> Cool, can it also be used to make local block devices remotely accessible
> and is there a read-only mode to make in particular that mode less risky?

It's a network block device driver for DOS.

* Mount standard disk images (floppy or HD) from a server (Linux or Windows at the moment)
* There is a read-only mode supported either on the server side (mark the image file read-only) or the client side (use a command line option).
* It uses UDP so it's routable - you can attach disk images on remote servers.
* No special permissions required on Unix or Windows.

-Mike

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dggionco Buenos Aires - Argentina, 22.12.2023, 19:13 @ mceric	mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10) Post reply
	The server runs on Windows 10-11 or Linux (not DOS).

mbbrutman

Washington, USA,
22.01.2024, 01:51

@ dggionco

mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)

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I've made a few changes to the server side that might be interesting:

* A Linux on ARM server is available now. (The code ran unmodified; I didn't have any little-endian/big-endian screw-ups.)
* A "headless" mode is available for people who don't want to use the text UI on the server.

I'm still doing a lot of refactoring and improving the code so I'm not releasing source code yet. I'd also like to get more feedback from people who have used it before I do release it.

dggionco Buenos Aires - Argentina, 23.10.2024, 10:51 @ dggionco	A new mTCP is available Post reply
	2024-10-20: A new mTCP is available This version (2024-10-20) allows the original mTCP programs to work at the same time mTCP NetDrive is active. No more having to choose! There are also some smaller improvements a few bug fixes. The mTCP NetDrive programs are also now included in mTCP. (The mTCP NetDrive servers are still in a separate download.) See: http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/

Laaca

Czech republic,
23.10.2024, 22:09

@ dggionco

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Beautiful :-)

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dggionco

Buenos Aires - Argentina,
19.01.2025, 22:20

@ Laaca

A new mTCP is available (2025-01-10)

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A new mTCP is available (2025-01-10) :-)

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html

From the release notes:

This is a smaller but important release, as there are some fixes in the library code that will help improve reliability. Here is what is has changed:

* Library fix: Improve the retry handling when the packet driver reports that it could not send a packet. A small back-off is now included to give the packet driver time to recover.
* Library fix: Improve TCP error recovery by ARPing the target of a packet each time a retry is performed. Some routers assume a quiet machine has gone away and garbage collect something, which kills long running TCP/IP connections when they try to start up again. Sending an ARP to the target during the recovery process seems to help those routers. (This was noticed on WiFi connections on an Asus router.)
* Library fix: A nameserver was required to be set even if you were only interested in using a HOSTS file. This is fixed.
* HTTP Server: Fix the incorrect image/jpg MIME type. (The correct type is image/jpeg.)
* Telnet: Rewrite the line wrapping logic. It was close but now it is far better. This was affecting some versions of Tmux.

In addition to that, the NetDrive source code has been released and can be found in the source zip file.

dggionco Buenos Aires - Argentina, 17.04.2026, 23:31 @ dggionco	A faster version of mTCP NetDrive is available Post reply
	A faster version of mTCP NetDrive is available for testing (2026-04-10) See: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html

Laaca

Czech republic,
18.04.2026, 19:05

@ dggionco

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Which tool is useful for manipulating with mounted disk images on the server side? Like copying files fron and to this image to normal directories?
(I mean in Windows 10 environment)

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mbbrutman Washington, USA, 19.04.2026, 21:32 @ Laaca	A faster version of mTCP NetDrive is available Post reply
	> Which tool is useful for manipulating with mounted disk images on the > server side? Like copying files fron and to this image to normal > directories? > (I mean in Windows 10 environment) I plan on looking at 2 programs: https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter https://github.com/QQxiaoming/QFSViewer