Re: [Freedos-user] New Version of DOSUTILS
Quoting wiwa64 wiw...@web.de: I also noted NTOOLS in a seperate package. As it happens, I know the guy who wrote netcat on which it's modelled. This is very nice to have for DOS. Actually there is more than one implementation of netcat for DOS. Michael Brutmans mtcp package also comes with an nc clone for DOS. His version has less features though. First, the similarities: - Both use TCP/IP sockets. Both can listen (server) or create sockets (client) - Both can use stdin and stdout or work interactively. There are a few key differences: - the mTCP version is a more pure version of netcat; it does not include the ability to run an arbitrary command, insert an initial string into the input ahead of stdin, format the output, etc. - the mTCP version provides much tighter control over how the connection is terminated. (How long to wait, wait for the other side to initiate the close, etc.) - mTCP provides a dedicated Telnet client for use with telnet servers, complete with ANSI emulation, backscroll, etc. - the mTCP version does not include the DHCP client code; DHCP configuration is in a separate program. (All of the mTCP programs use the same DHCP client code in that program.) - the mTCP version is not dependent on a TCP library that has not been maintained in years. I'm still actively working on performance and features, so if you need something either in the application or the library let me know. The next version of the mTCP version of netcat will include UDP support. That will make it pretty much complete as far as a network diagnostic tool. (For port scanning, echoing, etc. separate applications really should be used.) Mike -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] network printing
Quoting Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com: small rant We really need more programmers. I've done my part to create a framework for writing TCP/IP and UDP applications. There are a lot of neat ideas floating around, but for one person it is like trying to boil the ocean. Can write code but you are not a DOS programmer yet? On the edge about how to get started? I can help ... /small rant And just a small clarification ... That's an open invitation to anybody who wants to get started coding under DOS. I've been thinking about setting up a Wiki or a FAQ to make it easier for people who code on more modern platforms; warnings about fun things like segments and pointer arithmetic can help get people up to speed faster. Even just a good how-to on setting up a development environment would be helpful. -Mike -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)
Jack, Most modern flash devices have cells that are writable at least 10 times that - 100,000 cycles is the minimum you will find. Better devices have even higher cycle counts. DOM products have FLASH in them - Nobody said anything about DRAM. If they had DRAM they would have to be continuously powered. Products like Disk on Module that are designed as hard drive replacements usually have better wear leveling capability than standard USB thumb drives, as the directory meta data update issue is well known. SSDs take this to another level by over provisioning which means including more capacity than is advertised so that they will have enough spare capacity to make it to their rated lifetime. For applications where fast access is required nothing can beat a FLASH based device. Part of the equation there involves unit life; if you use a FLASH based device in an environment with lots of writes then you expect to be replacing it on an accelerated schedule. The write and read throughput is far above what a conventional spinning disk can provide, although the capacities are far smaller. Mike -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FTP Server testing needed
Quoting Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl: Is your machine on the internet or did you perform some router port forwarding magic? I've always wanted to do that, however router software isn't that cooperative usually. The machine is behind a firewall and the firewall is setup to forward incoming requests on port 2021 to the machine. An additional block of ports (around 2000) are being forwarded to support incoming data connections used for directory listings and file transfers. (These are the additional connections you get when the client is in PASV mode.) Normally a firewall snoops port 21 for traffic to figure out what traffic should be allowed to pass freely, but my ISP blocks 21 forcing me to use a non-standard port that no firewall knows to look for. On a slightly related note, the PCjr is still up and running and waiting for your call! It has had 479 FTP sessions started in the last 2 days; traffic has been much slower today though. If you've visited once, come back and try again - the more concurrent traffic it gets the better the code gets tested. The address is 96.42.66.188, port 2021. -Mike -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2011-05-20 Version
Quoting Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.de: Now that mTCP is Free Software, I think the next version of FreeDOS should focus on getting basic networking abilities. Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a good laugh out of that conversation though. Should you refer to me here (I highly doubt you do not) then please ensure not to misrepresent my opinion. I am not aghast at your choice of license. Though as has been stated it is true that personally I would have _preferred_ a license other than the GPL. It is obviously your choice. As I pointed out I appreciate your source code release nonetheless. If you want to further express your amusement at me please keep that to our forum. I will not reply to other posts about that on this mailing list. Actually, I was referring to you. And just as you pointed out that you have the right to infer whatever you want to infer on that forum, I am exercising my right to share my amusement where I choose to share it. Have a good day ... Mike -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2011-05-20 Version
Quoting Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl: Op 1-6-2011 18:25, mbbrut...@brutman.com schreef: Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a good laugh out of that conversation though. I've read that discussion and liked it, in my opinion looks nothing more than a thought experiment along the lines of: hey thanks for releasing it as GPL3 but have you considered the effects of your choice in case somebody (has some software and) wants to do 'X' ? People are fine with your choice, they're just creating awareness by being difficult about choices, without attacking the choices or the person(s) making them. Welcome to slashdot.org :) Sometimes it is hard to tell the motivation. I would have preferred that the license discussion not be attached to the announcement of one particular project and instead treated as a different/new thread of discussion. That removes any doubts. A more appropriate use of the announcement thread would have been to discuss the project goals or technical questions. However, I agree that it is time to move on. We definitely don't want this devolving any further .. Regards, Mike -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting FreeDOS to a SMB share
Quoting Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi Santiago, Update: I installed easily the NDIS2 drivers for my card, then the packet driver wrapper. mTCP is working perfectly. Right now, I am trying TCP's MS CLIENT 3.0 to connect to the SMB share through TCP/IP. Nice! Maybe you could email a summary of how you did it? I mean what you installed and which config files you had to edit in which way to make MTCP work via NDIS etc :-) I second that motion - I've never used NDIS and a shim before and I'd like to see how that is done. The SMB share is actually a Dlink NAS, I can use NFS too, but I have to install some modules before. I'll try a little more for SMB and then try NFS. Interesting. I assume you can also access the NAS via FTP or even HTTP? Samba sounds okay for me, but of course the choice between MSCLIENT and the ported Linux Samba command line tool smbclient is not that big :-) Eric If most NAS boxes do HTTP, is this the reason/motivation I need to get wget done? Mike -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting FreeDOS to a SMB share
Quoting cordat...@aol.com: With all the discussion on mTCP it seems this package is getting a lot of attention. Is there any update as to when we might be able to get source or even just a binary library? Short story - working on it. Longer story .. it's all my original code and I have copyright to it. However, the large corporation that pays me insists on approving any open source contributions. (Which is reasonable.) So you can imagine the look on people's faces when I said I want to start a new open source project, for DOS. I seriously don't think they know what to do. :-) A binary library is possible and I originally started down that path, but it makes more sense to just have people include the original source code and directly compile and link in everything they need. Otherwise they wind up dealing with whatever compromises were compiled into the library. It is all evolving as I learn .. Mike -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting FreeDOS to a SMB share
I appreciate the interest in mTCP, but there is a limitation you need to be aware of. The mTCP DHCP client is designed for the mTCP applications. You can use it and adapt it to do other things, but you will have to write some scripts or code to take the output from the DHCP client (a text file) and make it usable for whatever app you had in mind. For example, if you liked my DHCP client and wanted to use it with WATTCP applications, you would have to run my DHCP client, extract the IP addresses that you need from the MTCPCFG file, and then put them in the WATTCP config file. I don't know what it takes to make it usable for something like the MS SMB client - it can probably be done/adapted, but it's not something I thought about and I don't expect it to work 'out of the box'. It only works out of the box with the other mTCP applications. Mike -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp
James, I'm not well versed on lynx - it is built on top of the WATTCP library. Try a simpler application like PING or FTP which also uses the WATTCP library before you move onto lynx - at least you will know you have the basic configuration settings correct. Somebody else already pointed out mTCP - http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . That has the basic apps in it, but it does not have a web browser. The support is very good though. :-) Mike -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
