Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

On 23 Jun 2019 18:02 -0600, from tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org (Grant Taylor via TUHS): The OS/2 Museum claims at [1] that the network redirector was added in 3.0. I'd expect INTERLNK/INTERSVR to need redirector support, and if that assumption is correct, those wouldn't work on any pre-3.0 versions of Microsoft's DOS (whether MS-DOS or PC-DOS), and support may be spotty on versions earlier than the one where they were introduced depending on which exact features are used. Also, a cursory glance at a MS-DOS 3.1 user's manual and user's reference that I have lying around does not list INTERLNK/INTERSRV in the command reference, so those would presumably have come later than that. Wikipedia appears to confirm this at [2] by claiming they were introduced in PC-DOS 5.02 / MS-DOS 6.0; the cited source at [3], [4] simply says "6.0 and later" without specifying a variant. So, almost certainly not that easy, unfortunately. [1] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-3-0-3-2/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#INTERSVR_and_INTERLNK [3] http://www.easydos.com/interlink.html [4] http://www.easydos.com/intersvr.html -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)