Re: pc based backups

Asher Hoskins (asher@prl.research.philips.com)
Mon, 02 Dec 1996 10:23:55 +0000

Michael Vezie <mlv@pobox.com> wrote:
>Question: has anyone ported ogftp to DOS?

I don't know of anyone who's done this. I had a brief go at recompiling
for Win32 but I didn't have the time to find out how one talks through
serial ports in NT.

>I have omnicom, but it seems
>to be inferior to ogftp in this important area -- omnicom can not handle
>wildcards (I've seen the code in ogftp -- it doesn't appear to be all that
>difficult).

It isn't, all the wildcard handling is done by the transfer program on the
Omnigo (this is why "get *" works and "put *" doesn't).

>Otherwise, how does one easily backup to a PC?

Install Linux? :-)

Asher.