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Subject: Re: pc file handling ioctl etc
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:01:32 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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> > Can anyone tell me if there are any demos of accessing a pc file via the
> > tty stream, ie using open() close() read() write() and ioctl().
> >
> You can't at the moment. tty is the console environment, so all reads
> and write are to the console not directly to the PC.
> 
> It is possible to load any PC files to Yaroze the same way that .tim and
> .tmd files are done. Other than this unless someone rewrites siocons all
> files have to be loaded from PC at the start of the program.

Is there any documentation about the SIOCONS protocol ? I'd like to have
a SIOCONS
for linux, so linux can be my primary development environment, and to be
able to implement a 'device protocol' library similair to MWopen, MWread
.. etc.

-Henk-Jan 
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