Date   : Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:49 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: MDFS as Local Filing System

I'm not sure if this has been tried before, but I wonder if it would be
possible to write a filing system ROM based on the MDFS file server
(or even Level 3 Econet).

The idea would be that you would initiate it with *MDFS or similar
and then have access to any MDFS partition on a locally connected
floppy or hard disc, with all the usual Econet filing system commands
being available.

Some of the advantages would be:

- logging on with *I AM to a specific directory with password protection
- larger directories, up to the Econet limit of 250 entries
- space accounting
- faster copying of files into the Econet partition
- easy retrieval of files from existing Econet discs without needing
  all the Econet hardware
- date-stamping of files

The only drawback I can think of at the moment would be the file
size limit of 8MB on Econet where it is 16MB on ADFS.

Does anyone fancy taking it on?

Best wishes,


Ian