I have had success so far with serial only. Just trying to see what I can do when forced into a serial only corner (for science of course). I have been approaching this with the assumption of no optical or floppy drive being available om the old DOS system. I'm assuming it wasn't yours since it was so long ago 😀Īs for serial / parallel methods, I have been doing most of the attempts from a Windows 7 system with a pci-e card that provides a parallel port and two serial ports. That was around 2002 and I don't remember what it was called. I played with a 3rd party TCP/IP stack years ago, but I only had minimal success with it. I love that someone has created things like that for MS-DOS. Very cool to have gained your attention with this thread. This is another reason I mentioned using optical media in case networking is not available. 80 megabytes per minute or 50 megabytes per hour. I would forget serial - even at it's top speed on most computers (115 kilobits/sec) you're talking a transfer speed of. You can then use WFW's built-in FTP client and setup Filezilla Server on the newer PC.

If you have Windows for Workgroups 3.11 install that in DOS and it will add MS LAN Manager which will allow you to add TCP/IP. You didn't mention which version of Netware so don't know if TCP/IP is possible.

I still have mine and have used it in DOS/Windows 3.11 many many years ago and it worked well. If you did have an older computer incapable of accepting a network card you could use a Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adapter (PE3-10BT). Since those ports are non-existant on new computers the next best (and fastest) method would be over ethernet. Yes on an old PC the defacto method for transferring files was laplink or intersrv over parallel or serial.

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