Date   : Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:58:56 +0100
From   : Sprow <news@...>
Subject: Re: web fetching from BBC emulators

In article <KNEEJIOPPHNNBHBMMGACIECMCDAA.r.gellman@...>,
   Richard Gellman <r.gellman@...> wrote:
> >It's an attractive concept. I'd really like to be able to do:
> >CHAIN "www/mdfsnet/f9/co/uk.Software.Music.JGH1.ColdTea" on an emulated
> >Beeb!
> The hard part is getting the emulated BBC to accept that such a name is
> valid. No OS provided as standard with even the BBC Master 128 will concur
> that such a name is valid. To get around that you have the following
> options:
>
> 1. Trap OS Calls (OSFILE, OSCLI, OSBGET, OSBPUT, OSBPGB, etc) to deal with
> the names and perform the appropriate action
> or if your willing to do all that then:

If you only want to LOAD and CHAIN things intercepting OSFILE A=255 is all
you need.However,I'm sure you'll soon find a host of games which do other
things (like BGET and BPUT) which would require somewhat more effort -
though the use of file handles makes things a bit easier,since only OSFILE
and OSFIND deal with filenames,
Sprow.