On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:58:33PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > At work I use a networked box that runs from Novell Netware on DOS v5.0 > This runs very old accounting software. The box itself is a P120 with > 16 MB RAM and a small HD (about 128MB). No OS on the HD. [...] > > However, to transfer the files I have to use a floppy disc. How can I > connect the 2 boxes? The DOS box cannot boot from CD, has no installed > OS (boots into network off floppy) and has only a serial connection > spare. The network is 10BASE-2 thin ethernet. if you can somehow get on the same ethernet network, you might have luck with ncpfs, which provides some netware protocol stuff. I use it on one of my networks to connect to a point-of-sale system server that runs netware. otherwise I think you're in for some kind of null-modem thing off the serial port but don't ask me how... A
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