On 13/02/2018 20:49, Andrew Mawson wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher"Â* wrote in message
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On 13/02/18 19:54, Andrew Mawson wrote:
OK wrong forum I know but there are a lot of knowledgeable people on
this forum

I need some software that will run under DOS 6.22 that will allow me
to copy files to a CD/DVD-ROM Drive. This is on a legacy CNC machine
- I'm replacing a dying Viglen PC where the only exchangeable media
is 4.5" Floppy for a Compac DC7600 SFF PC that I have which also has
CD/DVD read / write drive that would be very handy for data exchange.

NB this is running genuine DOS 6.22 NOT a DOS window under Windoze !

Any pointers very welcome !


I would be seriouldsly tempted to fit an ethernet card to that DOS6
machine.

http://www.pld.ttu.ee/~priidu/library/net/trumpet.html

is some basic software you can use to talk TCP

Of you have a serial port on the machine, then its possible that some
fule transfer over serial software might work, too


Alternatively I'd be tempted to run iup a basic LINUX machine and
remove the the hard drive from the PC and install it in the LINIUC
machine top retroeve the data.

If the data only exists on a 4.5" floppy, then you are probably
shafted as it would probably me the only example of a 4.5" dloppy in
the world

OIf its on a 3.5" floppy use linux on an old machine that can boot
from DVD and also run a floppy as well

YOu will not find a DVD unit that works with DOS - Dos predates the
DVD by years. Ditto USB







Andrew



Yes 3.5" Floppy - 4.5" angle grinders on the mind

I've already got drivers loaded at boot in autoexec / config.sys letting
me read CD / DVD's into the DC7600 but cannot go the other way to save
files generated on the CNC lathe.

I suppose some sort of dual boot approach might be a goer - can one dual
boot DOS 6.22 and say Windoze 7 Pro so win7 can see the DOS files ?


Andrew





yes.