db> TCP/IP  Without going commercial, there's the "Watcom
TCP/IP" stack for DOS
db>         as I recall;  never actually tried it, but it's sitting on the file
db>         server at the University.

db> FTP     NCSA's ol' FTP utility for DOS - doesn't require a separate TCP/IP
db>         stack, just a packet driver.

Sounds good.  Where can I get it?

db> FTP is *not* the way to go for backups - if you want a TCP/IP solution, 
db> you'd be better off using NFS to mount the file system remotely;  I am not 
db> aware of a freely available NFS client or server for DOS.

AFAIK NFS = no fucking smiley.  ie you lost me there.  Anyway whats wrong with FTP?

db> How are the two machines networked at the moment?  One assumes that DOS is 
db> on the client, what about the server?  What sort of networking software 
db> *and* hardware?

The client is my laptop DOS & WFW 3.11.  The server is one of our
alphas with open vms using one of Digitals offerings.  The network is just
our office ethernet.  

At present I zip the stuff I want to back up then FTP it to my dir on the
alpha.  200Mb takes about 15 mins to transfer.

Rgds
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