Date   : Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:24:23 +0100
From   : bbcmicro@... (Ian Stocks)
Subject: MDFS at September Show

Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 00:45 +0100, Ian Stocks wrote:
>> I'd certainly be interested if you did. The Atom on Econet doesn't work 
>> very well on !AwServer (Loads and saves basic ok, but only if you know 
>> the file names), would be interesting to try it on an MDFS or any other 
>> fileservers available.
>>
>> Anyone know at what point support for Atom machines was dropped from 
>> fileserver software?
> 
> What goes wrong with other operations?  According to the documentation,
> or at least my recollection of it, the only significant difference
> between the Atom and later machines is that the Atom leans more heavily
> on the fileserver for command line decoding (i.e. it expects the
> fileserver to parse commands like *SAVE for it, whereas Beebs and later
> machines will do that internally and then issue a "Save File" request
> directly to the server).

I think your right, any star "*" commands just appears to get thrown at 
the server. The Comments or help in !AwServer openly admits that it's 
not expected to work with the ATOM (and possibly Systems). Some commands 
on !AwServer like *TIME & *DATE sort of work (some sort of buffer size 
problems show up). *SAVE & *LOAD just say "Not Implemented" when you try 
to use them.

Would be nice if there was a fileserver that supported *SAVE & *LOAD for 
loading games at the show. (Must go and see the AtomMMC guy at the show, 
can't expect the disc pack to last forever)

Ian.