How to extract RDP from win2K pro CD?

[OldButPeppy]

In a bit of a bind, so no formal Intro, sorry.

I have pc that is running win98se and I can VNC to it OK and Ping it on our home network, but cannot transfer files. I just learned that win2000 has RDP that will Share a Folder and runs on 98se.

I dug out my original win2K Pro cd and it is still readable. WOW!

What is the RDP file named on the CD? (nothing starts with "rdp..." in the "i386" folder.

I assume it will be compressed, so how can I decompress to transfer by floppy to the win98se?

Thanks

[jaclaz]

AFAICR it was a downloadable file called MSRDPCLI.EXE:

http://www.wilsonalvarez.com/remotedesktop/index.htm

for 9x and 2000, while it was included in XP.

jaclaz

[OldButPeppy]

5 hours ago, jaclaz said:

AFAICR it was a downloadable file called MSRDPCLI.EXE:

 

Thanks, awesome -- but a catch 22. {grin}

It is 4.3MB and I only have a 1.44MB floppy for transfers. How blasé we get about GB and TB these days.

That link mentioned XP so I dug out the ld XP disk and found a bunch of ",CAB" files.

I have extracted (7z) those 10 or 11 and they are all small enough to fit on floppies. I'll try installing them in the System folders of win98.

It is really frustrating seeing the win98 via VNC and not being able to send files. But hey, it **was** 1998.

Thanks again.

[jaclaz]

Do you mean you have a single floppy disk?

A lot of archivers (compatible with Win9x) will allow to compress a file and divide the resulting archive in floppy-sized chunks.

It won't be fast, but it used to work just fine.

Or you can just split the .exe and recombine the chunks on 9x with  copy /b, or use a dedicated program *like*:

https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/splitter/splitter.html

jaclaz

[OldButPeppy]

Thanks again, yes, only a 1.4MB floppy to the outside world.

I had found some reference to 7zip that broke-up files so I installed that here and made 4-files of 1MB each.

Five trips (only 1 floppy) to the workshop and back, I have them all copied over but cannot find a version of 7zip that runs on win98 **and** puts them back together. So far only the v4.xx version will run. I just tried v9.xx and it is wanting more files that the installed did not include.

Are you saying that the "/b" using the win98 CLI will concatenate the 4 files back into a single one? I will give that a try right now. Nothing to lose at this point.

What's the largest HDD size that win98se can manage? The current 420MB HDD (yes, Mega!) is running out of space. I can clone it across to a 40GB I have here if win98se is OK with that.

Thanks for your patience.

[blackwingcat]

On 10/2/2022 at 8:13 AM, OldButPeppy said:

In a bit of a bind, so no formal Intro, sorry.

I have pc that is running win98se and I can VNC to it OK and Ping it on our home network, but cannot transfer files. I just learned that win2000 has RDP that will Share a Folder and runs on 98se.

I dug out my original win2K Pro cd and it is still readable. WOW!

What is the RDP file named on the CD? (nothing starts with "rdp..." in the "i386" folder.

I assume it will be compressed, so how can I decompress to transfer by floppy to the win98se?

Thanks

Why was the win98se computer supported without CD and USB ? :3

[jaclaz]

I pointed you to a file splitter (and re-joiner) that works in all Windows including 98, but if you just split the file, you can use the "plain" copy /B to join the parts:

copy /b part1.ext+part2.ext[+partn.ext...] whole.ext

But - if you want to use an archiver instead, you need to use one that is 98 compatible as the files are usually not simply split, and need to be decompressed by the same program that compressed them.

With 7zip probably you can use the .zip file format, that should be compatible with older versions such as 4.xx, but it would be easier to use a program that runs (same version) both on your source PC and on the Win9x target, info-zip should do, the site:

https://infozip.sourceforge.net/

is largely down, but you can find here:

ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/win32/

the needed file zip300xn.zip.

but maybe it is a tad bit too complex in usage, being command line only and with an endless amount of options, the easiest would be to simply split the file "as is" with the given splitter, which is GUI:

https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/splitter/splitter.html

There is no practical limits on size of disk (in the sense that up to the 28bit-LBA, i.e. 137.4 GB you should be fine[1]), since the interface you have is very likely an IDE one, the issue might be to find an old IDE/ATA disk 3.5" disk, sized 120 GB or less, unless it is some sort of "old stock" such disks can only be found used (and of course they will be old) possibly you will need to find a 1-2-4 GB DOM (expensive) or a ATA/IDE to SD adapter or a IDE to CF card adapter (but lately CF cards are becoming scarce and expensive as well), there are also IDE to SATA adapters, but easily available SATA disks will be much larger than 137.4 GB, maybe a 120 GB SSD with such an adapter would do.

jaclaz

[1] https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html