Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Linux and data transfer Date: 16 Jan 1999 00:25:13 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <369FE132.9A2B02@identicalsoftware.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:45:38 -0500, Dennis Payne wrote: >I have siocons, gcc, etc. working under Linux. I've heard of several >"file servers" for windows. Basically a server that listens to the >serial port while the yaroze runs and can transfer files from the hard >drive. Obviously this is somewhat slow but I'd still be interested in >something like this. I've done something vaguely like this, but only for the action replay. You could write it pretty easily, as long as you found a way to drive the yaroze serial connection reliably. There's a lot of code out there that works on NT, and that's your best bet, I'd imagine. Siocons for linux doesn't work for me; I can only use psxfer. Moreover, the code I wrote to communicate with the yaroze doesn't tend to work reliably. I'm pretty sure it's because CIP (the yaroze monitor) does some strange things with serial handshaking. If you decide to do it, and get that far, then I suggest you look at Craig Graham's ARS code, which will show you how to trap open/read/write/close calls, and redirect them to the pc. >Has anyone converted the reference manual to man pages? I'll probably >start doing this at some point but wondered if someone else might of had >a similar idea. (I assume this would be legal to put up on the members >only site.) I wouldn't bother, to be honest. It'd be nice, but it's a lot of work, and you can always just get a copy of Acrobat Reader for linux. About the only thing that would make the pdf copies of the manual better is a real table of contents and/or hyperlinking. >Dennis Payne >dulsi@identicalsoftware.com Toby.