David MacKay
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Nick Waterman's NCP software - an alternative to the p3nfs system

X-Homepage: http://www.cimio.co.uk/~nick
From: Nick Waterman 

I am currently writing software to serve NCP from a unix machine,
meaning you can see unix files in "REM::" from the psion, and can use
the standard "Psion-Shift-B" to backup your files, etc. "p3nfs" requires
you to run a little progette on the psion, to serve files to unix. This
works the other way around - you run a program on unix to serve files to
the psion. You run nothing extra on the psion.

It's in beta at the moment, it hates you trying to do things like
editing files on rem::, but it works enough to browse around with
"Psion-*", and to backup with "Psion-Shift-B" and restore with
"Psion-Shift-R" which is what most people want.

At the moment it's only been tested on SunOS, at 19200, to a Psion 3a,
but in theory it ought to be easy to port to other unix, run at
different speeds, or serve different psions.

As I said, it's very beta at the moment, but if anyone is interested in
helping me to test it and/or tidy it up, please get them to mail
nick-ncp@cimio.co.uk. The software will probably be very cheap shareware
when it's eventually releaseable.
I will report my beta testing of this software here.

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