Data Transfer

Now, I figured out how to program with FTP, but that FTP programming is only for Visual Basic and not for Quick Basic. So I was intelligent and thought that I could transfer data from a windows programming language (Visual Basic) to an MS-DOS programming language (Quick Basic) by using the Hard drive since both languages can access the hard drive. What you see, the problem is, I only want to transfer about 200 some odd characters of data. I dont want to always rely on the disk to transfer this data because the program will slow down If I do. How else can I transfer data between Visual Basic and Quick Basic?