[iyonix-support] Re: Machine startup error

  • From: Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:09:24 GMT

In message <alpine.DEB.2.02.1011052210340.446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 on 5 Nov 2010 Iyonix PC Owner <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Andrew Pinder wrote:

> [most snipped]
>> BTW the Routes file has only comment lines; the "Run RouteD" tick box
>> is also unticked.

> Andrew, please keep in mind that the Acorn RISC OS TCP/IP stack has been
> derived from some flavour of BSD UNIX. Under all versions of UNIX (as an
> OS, not as a BRAND) the common philosophy is: "Everything is 'file'". So
> in this sense even writing to a (Unix) socket is writing to a 'file'.

> Files under RISC OS are something else though. The Routes file you mention-
> ed is a RISC OS file, that is a sequence of bytes written to a physically
> present media, like a HardDisk or a FloppyDisk, not one that exists as a
> (fictional) device in RAM, which will vanish when the computer is switched
> off.

Thanks for the clarification of these differences.  All I was doing 
was reporting the other settings in the "Routing" box within the 
"Internet configuration" part of !Boot in case these could be relevant 
to the problem.


Regards

Andrew

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