Date   : Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:38:26 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

In article <20040627190534.52812.qmail@...>,
=?iso-8859-1?q?F. Haroon?= <haroonnet2002@...> writes

>How does the Linux kernel support Econet?

It has code to process Econet packets, produced by Phil Blundell.
Google for "linux econet".  You'd have to come up with your own PC
Econet hardware and write a driver for it to interface to the kernel
code.

>  Does this include mapping
>saved BBC data onto some Linux directory for example?

No.  The kernel code is short and only concerns itself with the low-
level protocols.  There's no filesystem support that I can see.  You'd
have to write a server application.

>  Would it do this
>any better than Windows Server 2003?

If you can get WS2k3 to connect to an Econet and serve files to BBCs,
I'll be impressed.

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