Need simple file transfer program

From: James Dickens <jdickens_at_ameritech.net>
Date: Thu Feb 26 09:05:34 2004

On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:06 am, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > > any reason to not use a Ward Christensen protocol program?
> > > (XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM, etc.)
> > >
> > > ProComm, CrossTalk, Elf, PCTalk, MODEM7, ...........
> >
> > Mainly because I'm trying to transfer entire Bernoulli volumes. I am NOT
> > going to do this one file at a time. I need one command that dumps the
> > entire volume over the serial port and preserves the directory structure.
> >
> > I need to take a break from this nonsense.
>
> Are the machines in question capable of using a USB thumb drive? If so,
> an xcopy to that might solve your problem without a serial link.
>
> g.
I'm not aware of any usb drivers for dos 3.3 or any before perhaps dos 6

10mbit Ethernet cards seem like the best solution.... or 110k baud serial that
he used. on the older machine, the 110k would not be a problem given it is
mostly just sending data... the receiving end has the hard part...


James
Received on Thu Feb 26 2004 - 09:05:34 GMT