Date   : Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:14:23 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master ethernet upgrade

Sprow wrote:
> > F=OPENOUT("-http-sprow.co.uk:80") shirley?
> 
> Probably not, because the -http- part would be looked up by the filing
> system handler in the MOS. The table is of limited size which would
 
If you're accessing it via the filing system interface, you need a
filing system name of some sort. Maybe put all the protocols within
a single filing system and use the protocol name as the first
component, something like:
 
F=OPENIN("-thing-:protocol:host.path")
eg:
F=OPENIN("-thing-:http:mdfs.net:Docs.Comp.index")
 
How I'd love to be able to do:
    *TreeCopy net::Docs.$ ftp::mdfsnet at homepages.force9.net:Docs ~C~PR
 
:)
 
> > Obviously it'd need a hacked up, or re-writtem, NFS or ANFS rather
> > than doing the man-in-the-middle translation I'm doing for BeebEm, but
> > that would probably make it easier to implement!
> 
> I'll bow to your superior AUN knowledge, but I was expecting that NFS/ANFS
> could probably be operated on in a similar manner to Joh Kortink's patched
> disc filing systems which do sector operations via OSWord,
 
About 20 years ago I started modifying NFS to pass accesses to
networks &70-&7F to the serial port. I'll see if I can dig it out,
as it would be the logical route to patch NFS to pass networks
&80-&FF to Ethernet, as per AUN specifications.
 
-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
Our chief weapons are 'who', 'ps -aux', 'kill -9', and a fanatical
devotion to 'reboot -q'.