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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!136.142.185.26!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.pgh.net!not-for-mail From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS client for FreeBSD? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:17:01 -0400 Organization: Dis- Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3358FE0D.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <334E8A73.30DF@ewa.net> <3355a8d5.17964471@news.deltanet.com> <5j4b6v$sjc$1@easystreet03> <sejzpuvx2cj.fsf@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39356 Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > >> I am trying to transfer files from a DOS box > > The DOS version of NCSA Telnet will work. > > I've personally had more luck with Kermit. It's scriptable, it's it's > flexible, and has a better protocol. (Don't let anybody tell you that > Kermit is necessarily slow; it's faster than ZModem after you > configure it right, and more reliable. Check out > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ for info!) > Try ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/. These programs, although used by radio hams to run tcp/ip over radios, support IP over ethernet cards using the Clarkson packet drivers, and they do routing, smtp, telnet, the works. I think the newest versions even have a text based web brouser. They run on DOS and are mostly public domain. Just another suggestion. Like the man said, Kermit works too. -Jim Durham