Hello Arno, On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:26:37PM +0100, Arno Schuring wrote: > Regarding ssh for dos: there is no widely-used tcp/ip stack available > for DOS, so such network applications you are very unlikely to find.
I know of at least two native DOS TCP/IP stacks: - The Microsoft TCP/IP stack, as delivered with MS LAN Manager - THe IBM TCP/IP stack, as delivered with OS/2 LAN Server I believe both stacks are almost the same. Furthermore, using Windows for Workgroups, you have a "virtual" stack for DOS (which uses the Windows part as "back-end"). All three are compatible with one another. Furthermore, I believe that the DOS box of OS/2 or Windows has a virtual TCP/IP stack, too. > http://www.wattcp.com is the only one that I know of, but I have never > seen a ssh client that uses wattcp. I will have a look. > I imagine it would be possible to port cvs to DOS using djgpp > (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp), This seems reasonable, yes. > but you would still be stuck at the connectivity level - DOS has no > native networking support. Yes, I know. That's the reason I mentioned ssh in the original post. > There is no real risk in mixing DOS and windows environments > (especially up to w98), since they share a common base (filesystem, > line endings). Well, I know, as I have used it that way before. In fact, the DOS project started using a RCS implementation for DOS. As the project has all files in one directory, this is not that bad. As I wanted to have all sources on a central server, which is backed up regularly, I moved all RCS files into a central CVS repository. Although I can share the sandbox between Windows and DOS, there are many "manual" steps involved, which are error prone: 1. Check out a sandbox on Windows, put it into a Windows share 2. Copy the files from the Windows share to DOS (via network) 3. Work on the files If I want to check in, I have to do: 4. Copy the files back to the Windows share 5. commit 6. perform steps 2 und 3 from above Although it might be possible to checkout directly into a share from DOS, I do not like that idea. I do not trust the Windows TCP/IP stack that much, as it is rather old. | You might run into problems with long filenames, but you probably | already have encountered (or willfully avoided) those. Well, as this project started on plain DOS, it only uses features available on it. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs