Hi,

and another update. Sorry for the frequency, but I can
only work on it when someone with a Psion 5 shows up
on IRC and serves as a remote debugging terminal (that
are basically Neil Bothwick and Frank Mariak currently --
thanks to both for their help!)

Olli

Experimental Series 5 Support for AmigaNCP
==========================================

This is an experimental alpha of AmigaNCP supporting the EPOC32 NCP
protocol as implemented in the Series 5.  It is supposed to work with the S5
in both EPOC16 (Level 2) and EPOC32 (Level 6) mode.  EPOC16 mode will work,
but has the limitations of only supporting the "short" filenames. EPOC32
mode is pretty dodgy at the moment and may cause all kind of crap.

ENV:NCP.config has a new switch "SERIES5", which activates the Level 6
protocol support.  For example, to set AmigaNCP to use S5 mode with 57600
bps put

 B=57600 SERIES5

in ENV:NCP.config

Please report failure/success to the AmigaNCP mailing list.  To subscribe,
mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with SUBSCRIBE in the body or subject.

The FileSys spits out heavy debugging info to the shell. If you
encounter something weird, please send the debugging log to me
directly (not the list) at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 

Thanks for your help!

Olli

Alpha Changes
-------------

0.1
---
- first release of amigancp.library V8

0.2
---
- added S5-detection to the FileServer so it can
  warn that it's not supported with the S5

0.3
---
[amigancp.library v8.2, FileSystem v3.0.3]
- removed stale debugging window from amigancp.library
- reworked EPOC32 protocol support in FileSystem.
  Most operations should work now.

0.4
---
[amigancp.library v8.2, FileSystem v3.0.4]
- added EPOC32 to AmigaDOS error translation
  (error codes were different from EPOC16, oops :)
- fixed mkdir to add trailing slash when missing
- fixed up remote device scanning to incorporate
  device name and sizes (those are shown as
  file comments on the NCP: root level, btw :)


Known issues to sort out
------------------------
- Examine() on single files doesn't work
  (this breaks "copy" from Psion to Amiga)
- rename doesn't work
- delete doesn't work on directories
  (apparently)
- error code table may not be complete

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