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From: Andrew Robert Williamson <andyw@supersonic.win-uk.net>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.libraries
Subject: Re: pc file handling ioctl etc
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:51:51 -0800
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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tratax@pi.net wrote:
> 
> > > 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


Would it be possible to have the source code for the siocons system? I 
have a map editor which I want to run on my Yaroze. If I can extract the 
file handling routines from siocons then I can use more of the given 
memory for my map editor.

Andy Williamson.