I also successfully use KERMIT, TCP and packet driver what give me the way to transfer between Unix (C-Kermit), and DOS (on real hardware and under Virtual Box, using MS-DOS KERMIT).
Piotr Sent from PDP-11 > Wiadomość napisana przez Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> w dniu 17.08.2024, o godz. 10:38: > > On 17 Aug 2024 at 9:36, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: >> >> Hi Frank, >> >>> I kind of second that :-) >>> >>> DOSEMU has traditionally been "special". >>> Different from e.g. QEMU in that DOSEMU was a relatively thin >>> emulation layer. Not emulating what needed not be emulated. >> >> Note that current versions do emulate everything, even >> including the CPU, given how hardware has become less >> suitable for DOS over time. >> > Hello Eric :-) > > thanks for your informed and deep addendum. > I don't get to learn this stuff so neatly packed from just the docs. > >> I would NOT give either a raw actual block device. Sure, >> you could technically say the device can be used instead >> of a disk image, but you would have to tell Linux about >> the risk of competing access, which is a problem avoided >> by using dedicated disk IMAGES. The feature of letting a >> directory appear as a drive is very convenient in that >> sense, because competing access is no problem, plus you >> immediately see changes from Linux in DOS and vice versa. >> > Absolutely, I agree with all your points. > Note that "what's useful" depends on your particular task/assignment. > > Ages ago, I had a use case of some sort, where I needed the disk > (block device) to be physically removable, and to have the DOS > FDISK.EXE to be able to partition the drive etc. > I don't recall all the details anymore... I know that it was useful > to have a CF card in a USB reader (rather than straight on an IDE > channel), visible to some low-level HDD tools running in DOSEMU, to > do their thing = produce a CF card able to boot DOS on bare metal, > under a picky old BIOS that used to make a fuss about CHS vs. LBA > etc. geometry. I couldn't seem to persuade Linux native tools to do > what I needed back then. Using Linux and DOSemu meant that I didn't > have to reboot the machine doing the "CompactFlash preloads" > inbetween swapping the cards in the reader, and I didn't have to rely > on the CF cards having the same geometry (which at the time was a > stumbling block). > > I don't recall what the actual application scenario was... must've > been like 2 decades ago. This conversation thread has just tickled my > old memories of antics (unfug) like these being possible and > marginally useful back then :-) > > Frank > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
