Date   : Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:04:49 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: [almost OT] Econet/NetFS server for Linux -

At 22:32 18/09/2006, Richard Gellman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>As a personal challenge, and due to an astonishing lack of Google 
>results on the subject, I've started writing an Econet/NetFS server 
>for Linux, using the AUN (Econet-over-UDP) protocol. This means its 
>somewhat limited to 32-bit machines with an ethernet card at 
>present, but it could be adapted to operate with native Econet 
>cards. So far its working well with the stock NetFS (no !OmniClient 
>here), including Logon, Directory Browse (with LIB support), object 
>info (*INFO), limited file reading (e.g. *TYPE, reading files into 
>!Edit seems to work well), filetyping, and Logoff.
>
>Should the project ever reach completion (its a spare time thing, 
>you know what happens...) would there be any interest afield in the 
>program? Or am I completely re-inventing the wheel here, and I just 
>didn't Google hard enough?

Sounds good to me!

And it would finally be something I'd be able to test the econet 
implementation in BeebEm against! (It's supposed to be talking AUN, 
but I've never had anything acorn with ethernet in it to test it with!)

Oh, and I run FreeBSD rather than Linux on the servers here, so as 
long as it compiles on that I'll be happy :-)

Rob.