Date   : Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:20:08 +0000
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: Econet Remote

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 12:04 +0000, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Does anybody know if it is possible to remote an Archimedes
> network station from a BBC?  Presumably the Archimedes would
> have to be in BASIC or Supervisor mode but *REMOTE from a
> Master doesn't seem to do anything.

No; RISC OS's Econet system doesn't implement the two OS RPCs used by
*REMOTE.  I don't remember if it provides any hook that you could use to
implement them in add-on software or not.

Alternatively, of course, you could write your own variant of *REMOTE
that used machine peek to identify the type of the target machine, and
then selected an appropriate technique for connecting to it.  That would
avoid the need to make any software changes on the target system.

p.