Date   : Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:19:55 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: MDFS at September Show

Ian Stocks wrote:

> Would be nice if there was a fileserver that supported *SAVE & *LOAD for 
> loading games at the show.

I am going from memory, don't have an awServer to read... Well, I do, 
it's in e:\wwwsite but it is a SparkFS zip so WinZip ain't gonna touch 
it! Anyway, I dimly recall *SAVE and *LOAD being specific omissions from 
what awServer supports, which would lead me to believe that you may 
experience problems with your Atom if you need to use these commands to 
do stuff; however all the hardware-based servers ought to work okay. I 
guess your main limitation will be how much command line parsing the 
Atom does itself, vs how much it expects the server to be able to cope with?

<thinks> I'm pretty sure JGH either modified or largely rewrote awServer 
to pretend to be an MDFS - SoftMDFS? Hang on...

Oh, scratch that. JGH hasn't modified *that* part (yet?), it is:
   10380 DEFPROC_Cli_SAVE
   10390 PROC_Error(&FE,"Not implemented")
   10400 ENDPROC

Oh well.


Best wishes,

Rick.


PS: If you are reading, JGH, the file is 41K (41044 bytes), not 69 as
     indicated on your website. Still, great to see awServer evolving!
     Oh, and the JServer link goes all 404 on me...
     http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Apps/Networking/FServers/

PPS: I did start to write a server. I called it "LevelFive" (gee, how
     original). It was crap. Had a few nice features, but I gave up
     once I found awServer 'cos that worked! :-)

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