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- ALIAS.DOC
-
- Roomname aliasing:
-
- 1) Why allow aliased net names? Well... it's a neat hack and it allows
- systems to belong to the network without having to become just another
- network clone.
-
- 2) Yet another file in the net directory: if the file ALIAS.SYS in in your
- net-directory, STadel will read it for a list of systems & aliased names.
- This file is a ordinary ascii file; each line describes an alias for a
- system like so:
-
- system<tab>roomname here<tab>roomname there
- ^ ^
- | |
- +-----------------+- One and only* one tab.
- This *MUST* be a tab.
-
- (For example, if I wanted to network my Dumpster) with Non sequitur) on
- Bad Sector, I would put a line of the form
-
- `Bad Sector<tab>Dumpster<tab>Non sequitur'
-
- in my ALIAS.SYS file.)
-
- 3) When STadel goes into networking, it will load this file into memory.
- When it gets a roomsharing request from a system, it will scan this list
- before it checks the roomname for sharing. If it finds an alias here,
- it will check to see whether the alias exists instead of the name the
- other system sent in for networking.
- When STadel calls another system, it will do the same thing, but it will
- check the local roomname and send out the aliased remote roomname.
-
-
- 4) Here's what the ALIAS.SYS for Pell looks like (with tabs replaced
- by <tab>):
-
- syntel<tab>Dumpster<tab>\dev\null
- The Funny Farm<tab>Dumpster<tab>Bit Barf
-
-