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Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?


On 09/28/2009 03:11 PM, Steve Kleene wrote:
I need an ftp client that runs on an Intel x86 machine running Win98 SE that
has been booted into mode 5 ("Command prompt only").  Can cygwin provide
this?

This is on a lab data-acquisition machine with old D-to-A hardware and
software that will only run from Win98 booted into command-prompt mode.
Upgrading would be too expensive.  At the end of every day, I need to back up
the data.  I can do it now if I boot full Win98.  Since that's pretty slow,
I'd rather just ftp from the Win98 command line.  It's possible that our IT
guy is capable of setting up an ssh/scp server that I could access.

I expect that the FTP client that comes with the "inetutils" package from Cygwin
(1.5 for O/Ss < NT 4.0) would work for you. But correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't
Win98 have it's own command-line FTP client. It's been so long since I had to do
anything with Win98....


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