Archiving workstation hard drives

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:56 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Archiving workstation hard drives -snip- Hmm. DOS does have the advantage of not getting in the way of doing such things (and I've already got a DOS PC for Imagedisk work). Plus it's nice to have short startup times (and even faster shutdown ;) The only downsides: 1) Lack of long filename support (if I'm archiving something I prefer to give it a long name rather than having to poke into the archive contents to see what something is), 2) Lack of remote administration (control via serial port or network would be handy in some cases). ----- Ok, to get around #1, use IBm dos 7, DR-DOS, I think there's also OPENDOS, all of which support LFN IIRC. And on #2, there were remote control utilities for dos, I don't have any of them handy anymore unfortunately that allowed remote use of a dos box via serialport (modem) or network.