Date   : Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:55:04 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator/Arcade Problems

In article <f7f86a014e.Wookie@...>, Wookie <wooky@...>
writes

>Although I'm going to attempt to understand LPDFS and create a linux
>version of the file server it expects to talk to.

You need to snoop the serial port to find out what's going on - connect
up the RxD/TxD/GND lines to another Beeb and run a simple program to
display data flowing in and out of the serial port.
>
>i.e.
>
>*. on the beeb sends the following sequence ...
>
>22,51,29,22,30,23,21,41,30,4D,31,28,0D
>
>lpdfs now expects to recieve a catalogue
>
>I need to work out what to send back from my linux fileserver.

I wouldn't have thought it would work like that.  I'd have expected
LPDFS to translate "*." into the appropriate PR1ME command ("ls", for
example.)  The output from "*." looked like a standard *nix directory
listing if I remember correctly.

Try searching the LPDFS rom using the *nix tool 'strings' and see what
it finds.


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