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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1433
Total number of notes:10312

710.0. "midi net?" by GALLOP::BUCKG (don't let THEM grind you down) Tue Dec 19 1989 23:06

    I am looking for a midi port based network prog so that i can try
    some st-networking. Does anyone know if there is anything about
    that might help.
    
    I have seen a file called MIDINET in a couple of places, however
    I cannot find a copy that is easy to get at. I have tried looking
    in Jeffs dir but I cant get to prnsys.(decnet data base wrong :-( )
    
    
    For all I know at the moment it may even be a music prog ? 
    
    Has anyone used it.  ?
    
    
    Gareth
    
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710.1it's a network !MGOI03::FALKENSTEINWed Dec 20 1989 05:5520
    
    MIDINET indeed is a networking program. You may connect up to 15
    Ataris in a ring, as I recall each may be about 50 yards away from
    the next one. You are able to send and receive mails via an 
    accessory and you have access to mass storage devices of other 
    Ataris. Although it works with the MIDI ports, the max. transfer
    rate is 1700 Byte/sec. The packet consists of 4 files:
                         MIDINET.ACC
                         MIDINET.RSC
                         MIDINET.PRG
                         MIDINET.INF
    All this was announced and described in the german magazine 68000er
    in February 1988 (by chance I got this magazine on my desk right
    in the moment), and the program is on Readers Service Diskette #3/88.
    As far as I know diskettes from this magazine cost about 10$ 
    (27.-DM). The program itself is PD. I don't know if anybody already
    uploaded it to the net.
    
    Bernd
    
710.2My MIDI network experiencePRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaWed Dec 20 1989 14:3524
I run the KA9Q TCP/IP package between my two ST's on the MIDI ports. 
It supports FTP, SMTP, FINGER, and TELNET.  You have to be running NET
on both nodes to access it (it's not a device driver).  Mostly I just
FTP.  It has a filename parsing problem with the ST that means I can
only access files on one remote disk partition.  I have all the
sources, and know where to fix this problem, but haven't yet figured
out how to rebuild it so that it works.

I've heard third hand that it works for connecting to Ultrix using SLIP
on a dial-up port.  I haven't tried this (yet).

I don't have the executable on line at DEC, but I will upload it when I
get a chance.  In the meantime, you can read the documentation (such as
there is) is in PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]NET.DOC. The sources are
in NET.ZOO for the adventuresome.  It is supposed to be able to be built
with MWC.

The "MIDINET.ARC" in my directory was not for public access (and was
protected), as it was an early experiment by somebody else.  I never
got it to work, and it is now gone.  I have another one at home that
somebody wrote in PASCAL that works only occasionally.

BTW.  PRNSYS is 5.199.  If you can't get to it as PRNSYS::, you can
always get to it as 5319::.
710.3KA9Q Internet for Atari STPRNSYS::LOMICKAJJeffrey A. LomickaThu Dec 21 1989 15:238
Known good KA9Q executables:

PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]NETBIN.ZOO
PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]NETSRC.ZOO
PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]NET.DOC

The READ.ME file has step-by-step to try it out on two systems connected
by MIDI.  I don't think it will do a MIDI ring, just point to point.