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- From: dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: amiga netwrk stdrd api
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- Message-ID: <dej.023j@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca>
- References: <1992Nov18.112117.9143@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:11:01 EST
- Organization: Dejital Software
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- In article <1992Nov18.112117.9143@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> labenrsa@ICIL64.CILEA.IT writes:
- >- Should the network.library actually be complemented by a network.device
- > so that we can do I/O via Exec calls : SendIO/DoIO, etc.... ?
- > (this is the sort of approach used by VMS/DECNET at the nontransparent
- > level. I may be wrong but maybe DNET does something like this...)
-
- How about just a network.device, but with library calls, a la console.device
- and timer.device?
-
- >- Should the network.library actually have a network.handler, so that
- > we can do straight AmigaDOS I/O (both packet and file-oriented) ?
- > This option somewhat overlays the case of 'transparent' network
- > communication, discussed below.
-
- No. However, a network filesystem (like NFS, but supports Amiga filenotes
- and protection bits) would be useful.
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