Date   : Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:40:22 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Emulating Econet hardware?

J.G.Harston wrote:
> Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> > Hmm - didn't TorchNET make use of non-standard control fields? I'm sure
> > there was something which made it incompatible with Econet at a pretty
> > low level,
> 
> Interesting. I'll have to have a dig around in the code. I
> wouldn't be surprised if it uses 8-bit addresses and no control or
> port byte.
 
Looking through the Torch code I can see no incompatabilites. It just
calls OSWORD &10 and &11 to transmist and receive and all my Torches
had DNFS 3.00 in them when I bought them from a working installation.
 
Of course, that doesn't mean that Torches communicated with the Torch
Server using NetFS file server protocol, but there's nothing in the
code that suggests that Torches communicating on the network would
prevent non-Torches communicating on the same network.
 
I still need to get my Torch Server working again so I can recover
all that lovely data locked away on the hard drive :)
 
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