Re: Appletalk hookup?

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

fw060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Thomas) writes:
>Well, it would be nice if they could figure out how a ][e/c (or
>Laser 128) could be linked into the ][gs's serial port, and from there,
>be able to use the ][gs's hard drive. (Slot 2, Drive 1 anyone?)

Are more people interested in this (it is rather like LapLink or InterLink
for the MS-DOS world)? If you do not mind running a server on the //gs (and
nothing else) it is trivial - just a device driver on the //e that forwards
the block number to be read/written out the serial port and then the data. The
//gs gets this and maps it into its own volume numbering and does the requested
operation.

If you want it like Appleshare with multiple processes updating the same
filesystem it is harder. You would need to intercept the ProDOS system call
handler rather than just the block device interface.

When I get the time I intend writing an InterLink compatible server for my //e.
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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au