Right, fpmurphy, just what I was planning to point out, given the answers
mgis, Have You examined the options in Kermit? Once You're connected to the host (Linux) with a command line interface, You can initiate a transfer, and then return to Your client (Dos) with a special key sequence and locally give the command for start receiving data. Have You tried that? Or is that something You didn't know of?
/L
PS Sorry, I had to restart my 2400 baud modem and missed some... Yes You need to have kermit software on the host and I guess ckermit is a good choice. You start it at the host (kermit), and type at its prompt something like send <
file>, return to Your client with a key sequence that I can't remember (it was something like Ctrl-] I think) but of course You'll find it in the docs of ckermit.