Date   : Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:22:47 +0100
From   : Wookie <WookieMan@...>
Subject: Re: More hyperbole

In message <OE48KsGOJ82wqCTPaNO00017a42@...>
          "Dawn and Austin" <dawnandoz@...> wrote:

> Thanks for that Dave,
> 
> While I'm on a roll with my 'flights of fancy', how feasible would it be to
> devise a filesystem that utilises the serial port (with a PC at the other
> end) as its storage medium.

Already been done, but only for owners of a RiscPC :-)

Mind you, you could as John Kortink *nicely* if he would do a version
that would work with windows PC's

www.intel.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/software/65link.htm

>
> I salute the authors of software like XFER and BBC Downloader for producing
> such useful utilities but wouldn't it be an ideal scenario to access
> software directly from an area on the PC?
> 
> A kind of FTP for BBC where you can *CAT the contents of a folder on the PC,
> and CHAIN, *RUN etc. files that reside there.
> 
> Maybe this already exists?
> 
> Austin.


Cheers Wookie.

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