[Oberon] [BlueBottle] Thorn and FtpFS

[Aubrey McIntosh]

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Soren Renner wrote:
 > Let me run something up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes...
 >
 > I announce... Thorn!
 >
 > I was looking at Thomas Leonard's "Zero-Install" for Linux and wishing we=
 >  had an equivalent in Bluebottle. Then I realized that we almost have it =
 > already. Doesn't RFS provide a remote filesystem that looks just like a l=
 > ocal one?=20


Will the Ftp transparent file system mentioned in section 2.6 of 
AosSetup.Text help?  It is not symmetric, you only "get" and never "put."

I never did find documentation for RFS, so I implemented FTP.  If someone 
has a URL, post it and I'll eventually read up on it.

You can download the file ftp://FtpFS.Dsk from gaea.vima.austin.tx.us, with 
username "booter" and your email as a password.  This bootable floppy image 
should be able to boot a machine across the net from my machine.

Please edit the startup environment so that your login password is 
authentic.  Another file, ftp://AosFtpFS.Tool contains some language that I 
am editing, but which may nonetheless be useful.

(Note to Thomas,  I just did a "dir FtpFS.Dsk" with the configuration I 
emailed to you, and trapped the Ftp Server.  I shortened the volume name to 
be just "Rd:" and things worked ok on 1 test.)







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