Date   : Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:02:19 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: DOS+ Econet software

On 26/12/2010 10:19, Alan Williams wrote:

> Its not a close relative of the Ecolink software as its DR DOS
> extensions not a MS DOS extension as the Ecolink driver is.

Isn't the Ecolink an ISA card, anyway? :-)


> The only thing I can remember about it is that its diabolically slow,
> mind you so is the Ecolink.

:-)

I wonder if there is any viability why a driver of some sort couldn't be 
created for Win32? After all, if it is possible to get a parallel port 
zip drive running, why not an Ecolink?


> Turning the DOS extensions into prefix directory names, just buggers
> up L3 and filestore like nothing else.

What, you mean like "$.txt.mydoc" for the file "mydoc.txt"? Yeah, I can 
imagine scanning all the subdirectories for files could be *painful*.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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