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From: Phillip Temple <ptemple@acorn.co.nospam.uk>
Subject: Re: AcorNet 0.20 (Stewarts comments)
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On Wed 13 Aug, S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
> > * Acorn to make one available
>
> Is that likely to happen in the very near future?
Well I certainly can't say anything :-> Seriously, since it's part
of a commercial product (Intertalk) I don't think so.
> > * someone else to write one that is Freeware
>
> And will anybody bother to write one? I don't think that there are that
> many people involved in the RISC OS networking scene who are capable of
> doing a good job at writing such a driver - especially since you really
> need to be a registered developer to get hold of the various pieces of
> documentation you need and many aren't (when I asked for details, I never
> even got a response) and/or can't afford it.
What details would they need that they can't get hold of? If no-one
writes a Freeware one though, then they will have to:
* use a provider that supports SLIP
or
* pay to use the Shareware PPP driver
> The problem is that you need to have enough documentation to be able to
> construct a working setup so that you can access the web-based
> documentation. In reality, this means that you have to be able to get
> Newsbase, Messenger, POP/FreeSMTP & ArcWeb into a working state.
Agreed.
> Still, the entire package is about half the size of a Microsoft Internet
> Explorer 4 download.
That's like saying I must be underweight, take a look at the
reigning Sumo champion...
Phillip.
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Phillip Temple