Re: Sweet16 plans

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 2 sep, 01:17, "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-
att-this> wrote:
>   To: Toinet
>
> Toinet wrote:
> > - FTP:
> > Make it work like on Mac OS/X (with GS/OS equivalent with Marinetti)
> > - let the user enter the server address (FinderExtension),
> > - create a device (just like MountIt or EasyMount),
> > - any calls to the device will be translated by the FTP FST to its
> > device driver or directly sent through Marinetti
> > You will have to deal with all the different FTP servers ;-)
>
> I had that on my to do list of IIgs internet applications (IN: The
> Mailbox, IN: The Newstand, IN: The Library).  I wanted to write a disk
> driver and possibly an FST for accessing files on an FTP server so when
> editting your web page you could open the file on your FTP server,
> update it and then simply save it.
>
> However, when discussing it with other developers at KFest (1999 I
> believe), a point I hadn't considered was brought up.  How do you handle
> when a program asks you to open a file and then start reading from or
> writing to the file start at 10 MB in?  It would be possible to do this
> when reading if you were to use the auto resume transfer feature of
> newer FTP servers to reposition to that point but not all FTP servers
> support that feature and I don't think it works for writing.
>

Solution 1: in your FST, you add a "AutoResumeTransferFeature"
parameter to your Volume Control Record. Use it to determine whether
you would handle the SetMark call.

Solution 2: in your FST, you tell it to refuse the SetMark call ;-)

> I have since figured it would be better to simply make it a FinderExtra
> that you could open a connection to an FTP server and it would give you
> a window in the Finder that you could then drag and drop files to or
> from.  Not as nice as being able to load files from within applications
> but still pretty handy.  Someday I'll get started on that project.

If you manage the Marinetti part (I don't) and myself the Driver/FST
part, we may reach to an agreement on that program. Someday...

antoine