Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

[Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>]

Hello!
And I can confirm that it does work on DOS 3.30. I wasn't aware that
it had that sort of history, but such are things. I've used it to send
things from a small portable to a laptop the laptop ran DOS 6.22, and
the portable was running 3.30

Mary Anne you own an AT&T PC 6300? Wow, I got my start along the
regular desktop market with one. And their 80286 version as well.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 5:31 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Michael Kjörling wrote:
>
> > The OS/2 Museum claims at [1] that the network redirector was added in
> > 3.0. I'd expect INTERLNK/INTERSVR to need redirector support, and if
> > that assumption is correct, those wouldn't work on any pre-3.0
> > versions of Microsoft's DOS (whether MS-DOS or PC-DOS), and support
> > may be spotty on versions earlier than the one where they were
> > introduced depending on which exact features are used.
>
> A prototype was introduced in 3.0; it wasn't exactly usable until 3.1
> iirc.
>
> > Also, a cursory glance at a MS-DOS 3.1 user's manual and user's
> > reference that I have lying around does not list INTERLNK/INTERSRV in
> > the command reference, so those would presumably have come later than
> > that. Wikipedia appears to confirm this at [2] by claiming they were
> > introduced in PC-DOS 5.02 / MS-DOS 6.0; the cited source at [3], [4]
> > simply says "6.0 and later" without specifying a variant.
>
> I can confirm the presence of Interlnk in PC DOS 5.02 as well as MS-DOS
> 6.00 (and this is why I specifically mentioned those versions).  I've done
> a lot of research on MS-DOS/PC DOS history. ;p
>
> Interlnk does have a way, as I mentioned, to copy itself over a serial
> cable.  I suppose it probably relies on CTTY and DEBUG or something.
>
> -uso.