From: "Ben A L Jemmett" 

> I may be able to connect a laptop to one of the machines via serial cable.
> Is there by any chance any sort of terminal or file transfer program that
> would be available on a basic DR-DOS install?

There is, and it's called FILELINK.  It's got the usual bootstrap routine so
you can start it on one machine and copy it over to the other end without
having to install DR-DOS (if you don't already have it at the other end).

> I not in a position to do any heroic hardware upgrades on the machines, but
> I do have an old 10-T hub which also has a coax port, and I was going to
> plug the network cable from one of the computers into this, along with a
> laptop.  I'm hoping that will get me on the network.  Once I am, will a
> Netware client on the laptop be able to see the Personal Netware server and
> log on for file sharing?

The old VLM client for DOS is the only one that will access a Personal NetWare
server.  At a protocol level, PNW and NetWare itself are incompatible, so the
other Novell clients won't talk to PNW.  I'm not sure if the Macintosh client
will talk to PNW, since that's nothing to do with Novell these days, but I
doubt it'll work.  At a transport level, Personal NetWare uses IPX.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)



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