Re: Linux and XyWrite

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:

> BTW, does anyone know how to FTP in a DOS system without Windows? I thought
> the FTP.EXE program was pure DOS, but it won't run w/o Windows. There used
> to be something called, I think, "runtime Windows" that enabled programs
> like PageMaker to run even though the system was just DOS. Could that be
> applied to FTP? Or maybe I should emulate Win 3.1, which I suspect would
> run Xy faster than Win98 does.

Not offhand, but there may well be one. There are a lot of alternative FTP
programs for Win (one that I recall hearing of was CUTE FTP). If you are only
emulating DOS on the Mac, that won't help you, but the W98 or later VPC
emulator for the Mac should cover most of these.

Jordan