[Ohrrpgce] Old OHR source zips

[James Paige]

The source code to givefile and getfile is lost to time, but I did just
realize that the IPX networking code that they use still exists here
https://james.hamsterrepublic.com/hamster/ipxufo/asmcode/ipxstuff.asm



On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ah, that's rather neat! I actually read zz_486.bat last week when looking
> at the source from 2000 and I noticed givefile. I figured it was a network
> transfer program, and with a name like that guessed it was a custom program
> or batch file. And then you answer my question a few days later :)
>
>
> On 20 May 2017 at 02:20, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> Opps!
>>
>> I had those files uploaded chmod 600 instead of 644
>>
>> I have fixed them, and normalized their names
>>
>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>> 2001-06-07.zip
>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>> 2002-07-10.zip
>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>> 2003-11-29.zip
>>
>> Looking on those is a blast to the past. In the 2001 zip, I can see a
>> batch file called zz_486.bat
>> It calls a program called "givefile"
>>
>> If I remember correctly, My computer, and my cousin Brian's computer were
>> sitting side-by-side connected by a single ethernet cable with no
>> hub/switch.
>>
>> His was a Pentium running Windows 95, and mine was a 486 running DOS, and
>> Windows 3.1
>>
>> Our attempts to get Windows networking file sharing to work repeatedly
>> ended in frustration, but we knew that IPX networking was working fine
>> because we could play multiplayer DOOM and Hexen, so Brian dug into some
>> IPX documentation, and wrote givefile.exe and getfile.exe (I think they
>> were in asm, not quickbasic, but I am not sure) They would do a crude file
>> transfer
>>
>> So that zz_486.bat was my first network backup script for the ohrrpgce.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> James, you mentioned that you found some more backup copies of the OHR
>>> source code and uploaded them to http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohr
>>> rpgce/archive/. (For some reason I can't find the email about it, maybe
>>> it was on IRC). Half a year later I'm finally getting around to downloading
>>> them and splicing them into the git-svn history. I see three new files in
>>> that directory:
>>>
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-src-2003-11-29.zip
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/wander-src_2001_06_07.zip
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/wander-src_2002-07-10.zip
>>>
>>> But I can't download any of them, they all give a 403 error!
>>>
>>> (Also, these are inconsistently named with the other
>>> ohrrpgce-source-*.zip files)
>>>
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