@dec_hl would this coexist with Win3.1 ? It'd be a great way to extract files if so e.g. by sharing the C drive...

@falken I don't really think so. The server runs in protected mode in CWSDPMI DOS extender...

@dec_hl ah. Was hoping it'd be better than having to FTP my Newton backups

@falken well, if you have a network card in the box anyways you can try EtherDFS?

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@dec_hl Ideally it'd not require anything special on the modern machine. Running an FTP server on it is one thing. SMB is out becuase modern systems wont talk old style encryption. EtherDFS would work, but needs it's own special server.
Open to more ideas ;)

@falken well, I usually need to transfer from modern to retro and not the other way around 🤣
And I have Samba, EtherDFS and HTTP running on my local network for that...

How about setting up some kind of HTTP server and push via HTTP-PUT using the wget from FreeDOS? But that wouldn't be much better than FTP.

Try scoring an USB ZIP-Drive and a parallel one on eBay maybe? 😋

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