Date   : Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:52:13 +0000 (GMT)
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Beeb Networking

In article <517429ed99info@...>,
   Sprow <info@...> wrote:
> In article <AANLkTi=mRukyuunO5j0Grx+9W0nNef_kpoEv+PHmNvRu@...>,
>    Rob <robert@...> wrote:
> > > Ethernet module for the Master - Sprow
> > > http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm
> > > Allows a Master to connect directly to an ethernet network.
> >
> > Yes - although I don't know if he's exposed an API yet, or if you are
> > still limited to file access to SMB shares only.
>
> The API is defined (it's just BSD sockets but done via an OSWord control
> block), and implemented in my current development version [...]
> There are 2 loose ends [...] It's made
> it back near the top of my todo list

So much so I've actually done something about it this week, and finished off
the exposing of the API. I've written a simple web server (in 56 lines of
BASIC) which I can now fetch pages from with Internet Explorer, though I've
resisted the temptation to call it 'web master'. This goes along with the
NTP client I wrote to get the time from a remote time server.

  http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/hardware/httpserver.zip
  http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/hardware/ntpclock.zip

The other thing on my to do list before releasing all this is check whether
adding NTLM security negotiation now opens the shutters on Windows 7.

This upgrade will be a ROM + network module upgrade for existing users as
the OSWord code is obviously in the ROM image,
Sprow.