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 -- Andrew Pinder --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support