Date   : Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:35:09 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Econet Remote

"Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...> 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.
 
*REMOTE will only work between same CPU type machines, ie BBC to
BBC, BBC to Master, etc.
 
Additionally, to REMOTE a RISC OS machine requires the RISC OS
machine to cooperate by running an application that responds to
attempts to control it. The ability to noncooperatively perform
actions on other machines was removed in RISC OS. Do a web search
for "Budgie RemoteArc".
 
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