Dodo support?

[Kirtai]

Could ST80 be made to use Dodo's networking services? Or does it not use XNS?

[devhawala]

To my knowledge the V2 and DV6 do not know anything about networking.

Only the Analyst 1.2 system has a restricted notion of networking. But it does not implement any of the XNS protocols directly in Smalltalk, instead invokes the Executive of the Tajo (XDE) environment where if believes to exist to run commands:

• printing: there are 2 primitives for sending a press or interpress print format file and query the status, but these are documented to work through the standard "OPrint tool" or the "Print tool" commands respectively
• filing: here 2 more general primitives are used to directly run commands like "login" or "ftp" in the XDE-Executive to transfer files between an fileserver and the local disk

BUT: ST80 currently emulates only the Tajo file system, but not an Executive (as command shell under remote control) including the commands mentioned above.

So two things would be needed for supporting the networking built into Analyst 1.2: ST80 would have to be extended by an emulation for the Executive and standard XDE command (hard, as this would include the implementation of the XNS client parts for calling Dodo) and some new primitives (less hard).