Possible to synchronize DOS w/ Windows?

[CarpeDeo]

Hello,

I have a friend who's a doctor and uses two primary computers w/ two systems, DOS and Windows.

He primarily uses the older system (w/ older programs) to update his patient records. He has a compatible program on Windows and he wants the files under DOS to automatically synchronize (everyday or so) with Windows.

Any way to do this?

 

[dphantom]

To start, both systems need to be on a network to transfer data. Wired/wireless no matter but they have to be able to talk to each other.

Next, does the compatible application support data synchronization?

My guess is no so you are going to have to do it manually. Possibly export data from one system in a form readable by the other and then import it.

 

[fuxxociety]

would it be possible to either port the DOS program to a POSIX-based OS(eg. linux?) and if that is not possible, mabye come up with some way to at least /run/ it on linux?
linux is far easier to provide network filesystem access than DOS is.

It could be as easy as setting up an NFS share and updating the files from the share on every boot of the windows system

 

[Rogue]

FTP?