Date   : Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:13:42 -0700
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: XFER in C

Jonathan Graham Harston writes:
>> Message-ID: <040804022506@...>
> 
>jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston) wrote:
>> XFer should just use the file paths you tell it to. If you tell it to
>> transfer ":4.fred.jim.sheila" it should do it. I've only ever played with
>> version 3.00 from 1998 which had a lot of hardwired any assumptions
>> built into it. Never having had a machine I could run the sever end on
>> within less than a mile of my BBCs I haver used it much. (Anybody fancy
>> writing/compiling a RISC OS version of the server?)
> 
>I've just found XFER version 4 which has the server end written in C.
>Wonderful!  I'm now ploughing through it writing a RISC OS module for
>it so it can be compiled and run on RISC OS.

Great. Let me know the diffs when you have them, I'll put them in the master
source.

I've been vaguely thinking about protocol changes for a while to do checksum
and re-try at a fairly fine granularity. If you want to propose any
extensions or changes there, let me know. (Another extension or program I've
been toying with for a while is writing a serial re-directing filesystem,
which refers all operations to a server on the other end of a serial link,
exposing the host native filing system to the BBC.) I doubt I'll get round to
actually doing anything about these ideas any time soon, I have way to much
paying work to do, most of which is pretty interesting.

a.