Date   : Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re BBC serial filing system

Jonathan Graham Harston writes:
>Of course, the disadvantage of using the device driver approach is that
>the data is stored at the other end within an image file that represents
>the disk accessed, not as actual files on the host system's file system. 

This is the problem I was wanting to get around; I'd like to be able to use
Emacs on a Linux box to edit some of my assembler sources, and use Perl
scripts and whatever else I want to process the data, but then have it
available on a Beeb.

>"Give me sector &003345").  There are various already-written options:
> 
>HostFS written by me which gives you a filing system that is whatever is
>at the other end of a connecting link, selectable between serial,
>parallel, user, MIDI (if fitted) or 1MHz bus.  If I could just track it
>down amongst this pile of disks next to my desk, I'd put it onto my
>website.

That looks like just the ticket, with some appropriate munging of the remote
end. Does it just transmit the OSFILE/OSWRCH/OSGBPB/unrecognised OSCLI etc to
the other end and then wait for a response, or is it more sophisticated than
that?

>I've also got, somewhere, a skeleton filing system that does nothing but
>'be' a filing system.

Again, a useful starting point. Are you willing to share it? (I can cut down
the same from my own sources, but I'm already 8 years late on one project,
and don't want to take on any others I can avoid.)

a.