Date   : Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:26:19 +0100
From   : "BeebMaster" <beebmaster@...>
Subject: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge

Had my friend round here a couple of months ago playing "Chuckie
Egg" and he had just got up to the bit where the bird comes out
of the cage (I've never got that far!!) and I did a *VIEW on him
from another station and it crashed!!!!

No doubt more Econet horror stories will abound!

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Johan Heuseveldt
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:05:38 +0200 (BST)
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Econet-Ethernet bridge

Hi,

On Fri 29 Jul, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Jul 29 2005, 13:22, Johan Heuseveldt wrote:

> > There was the *VIEW command [1] to watch the screen of another Beeb,
> > which data size could be 20K. OK, most (school) network managers were not
> > happy with it, I believe, as it has a disastrous effect on Econet
> > performance, and wouldn't allow it.
> 
> It was more to do with the way pupils tended to use it, than with the
> overhead :-)

Yep, in a REPEAT UNTIL loop!


greetings,
Johan

-- 
Johan Heuseveldt <johan@...              >
  aka  waarland

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