How would I share data between two MS-DOS 6.22 machines? Would I need to install a DOS network client on each machine, then create a peer-to-peer network between the two machines using NIC cards and a cat5 crossover cable?

Due to overhead of MS-DOS Network Client 3 it is more effecient to use a program called NeOS: http://www.simtel.net/product.php?u... You need an NIC in each PC and Packet Driver, plus a crossover cable. Alternatively you could use Interlink as it is a feature of MS-DOS 6.22: http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/page6a... Also worth considering are: FileMaven http://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm Laplink Pro 4.0 & FastLynx 2.0 http://www.oldfiles.org.uk/powerloa...

Hi Chris30, Are your PCs physically close to each other? It's no problem to share partitions unidirectionally by using an InterLink serial or parallel cable; i've done that since i got my 1st PCs (and that's how i chose my alias, actually). If the distance is too important, NICs and Cat-5 cabling become mandatory and then you can tie them thru a NetWork Switch in order to access the other resources if applicable. This has been debated before, you can use standard FTP protocol, TelNet/Kermit (or even TelNet/ZMoDem if you feel adventurous), there's also IPXCopy but it's unidirectional (server/client pair as for the InterLink cable). The use of serial-ports is your worst option and specially on legacy PCs, NICs are no comparable bottleneck and they're affordable... Full-blown NetWorking solutions seem overkill when all you try to do is to copy files, not to mention that using MicroSoft's NDIS software, for example, eats up so much memory it's hardly usefull at all! ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Salutations, Michel Samson a/s Bicéphale