Date   : Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:39:13 +0100 (BST)
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Econet Real Time Clock

On Jul 2 2005, 22:03, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <050702175504@...>, Jonathan Graham Harston
> <jgh@...> writes
>
> >That's odd. The Acorn Level 3 Filer Server code I have just
> >prompts you to enter the time and date. I wrote a short start-up
> >program that reads the time&date from OSWORD 14, and starts up the
> >file server.
>
> No, I'm quite certain that (one of the) versions I have refuses to
run
> if it can't find the clock.  I'm being sent abroad at short notice by
my
> employer, but will read the disk images and upload them somewhere
when I
> get home for others to try.

That's exactly the behaviour of all original Level 3 Fileserver discs,
including the two I have.  Mine are originals with dongles, just as
Mike described. Jonathan's one is obviously a later, de-dongled
version.  Whether that was modified by Acorn or a third party I cannot
say.  However I'd suspect third party, as even when I was at Acorn
they'd moved to other FS solutions, before the dongles had died.
 That's not to say that someone like Laurie Hardwick or Bruce Cockburn
might not have quietly told some important customer which bytes to poke
to disable the test, though.

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York