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ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack?

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I'm writing this while I'm thinking it through, so I'll have a record.
Duke mentioned the problem of email for LNO.
I don't like LNO much, compared to LEO, which I use all the time.
But LNO can run on a netbook using a framebuffer, without the
full X-window system.

So let's think this problem through.
And correct my mistaken assumptions and conclusions:-

N-O was originaly designed for RS232-modem,
and the full <IP/TCP stack> was in N-O [of course].

So for  <send string1 to IP/port>,
all stages/levels, from the app's passing the string,
down to the serial port driving the modem,
was handled by N-O [of course].

Under LEO, the underlying linux does the internet handling.

Without anlysing the source code, I want to know how the
N-O part of LEO interfaces with linux.

Does the fact that "everything in *nix is a file" make this
easy?

Since linux, which previously drove a modem via a RS232,
can easily be 'reconfigured' to drive a radio-modem via a
USB; and passing the same byte-stream in both cases, I'm
guessing that just the appropriate file-driver are needed.

So the byte-stream is just fed to any character-type
file-device, and the appropriate driver handles it.
So the input-feeder need not be concerned what is
receiving the input.

If that is the case, and although the netbook has no actual
RS232, if I create a /dev/tty0 [pseudo]file and [symbolicly]
link it to the /dev/<existingUSB> , which is connected to
the remote IP:port via linux, could I communicate with the
remote IP:port via LNO? Would LNO treat the /devtty0/
as if it was a PC's "COM" port?
I guess not, since during boot, linux would see that there
is NO RS232-port and .....?

If not, I suspect that facilities exist to easily connect into
the IP:stack at various levels, and connecting at the highest
level would be most convenient, via an Oberon <-> C
interface ?

Thanks for any ideas,

== Chris Glur.

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ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-03-22 19:28 +0000
  Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2012-03-22 21:39 +0200
    Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-22 20:07 +0000
      Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-03-22 16:27 -0400
        Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-03-22 16:44 -0400
        Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2012-03-23 02:43 +0000
      Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2012-03-22 21:12 +0000
    Re: ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? "Chris Burrows" <cfbsoftware@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-23 19:10 +1030
    Re (2): ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-03-23 23:21 +0000
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      Re: Re (2+): ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2012-03-24 12:12 +0200
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    Re (2+++): ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-03-24 17:22 +0000
      Re: Re (2+++): ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2012-03-25 15:17 +0300
        Re: Re (2+++): ETHO interfacing linux IP:stack? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-25 12:31 +0000
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