31 Jul
2005
31 Jul
'05
12:14 p.m.
At 08:29 PM 4/21/2005, Jay West wrote:
Just wanted to say thanks for the people who have
contributed knowledgebase articles to the classiccmp knowledgebase (www.classiccmp.org/kb)
I have a suggested topic... "How to bootstrap files to a DOS machine."
It was almost covered in January on the thread "Importing binary files
without removable storage nor non-bundledsoftware". Someone asked me
for this today and I didn't have it at my fingertips. They had a
cast-off laptop whose floppy didn't work, so they wanted to bootstrap
more files to it over the serial port.
I recommended
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/commprog/msk-rcv.bas
Although these days, you need to teach the twenty-sometimes
what Kermit is. Sigh.
- John