Short:        Remote filesystem & AREXX between Amigas
Author:       offset@cpcscene.net (Philippe Rimauro)
Uploader:     offset cpcscene net (Philippe Rimauro)
Type:         comm/net
Version:      3.4
Architecture: ppc-morphos >= 3.18; m68k-amigaos >= 2.0.4

    NetFS 3.4
    An Amiga-oriented remote filesystem and AREXX ports sharing.

    Copyright © 2015-2025 Philippe Rimauro
    All rights reserved.

    Based on the original NetFS from Timo Rossi, 1992-1996.



Introduction
------------

    NetFS is a network  filesystem  and  AREXX  ports  sharing for MorphOS
    computers or Amigas running a TCP/IP stack (such as AmiTCP, MiamiDx or
    Roadshow).

    This new revised version of NetFS greatly improves it by adding support
    for most of  the  missing  DOS  packets  (including  64 bit  support on
    MorphOS).   It  also  introduces  an  asynchronous  mechanism  for  the
    connection management to avoid locks and annoying timeouts. Support for
    IECLASS  events and MagicBeacon notifications  (MorphOS-only)  was also
    added,  as well as some basic security management data encryption,  and
    much more...

    Please note that NetFS is  *NOT*  SUN NFS compatible.  It is to be used
    between MorphOS computers and Amigas only.
 


Requirements:
-------------

   . MorphOS,  AmigaOS 3.x  or  AmigaOS 4.x  (should also work on 2.04; not
     tested).
   . A working ethernet network.
   . MUI 3.8 or better for the graphical tools (optional).
   . In real life, anything less  than  a 68040 might be a bit too slow for
     the crypted mode.

   Note: There is no specific PowerPC binaries for AmigaOS 4.x, but the 68k
         version  of  NetFS  works  nicely  on  this  OS  (with  some minor
         limitations).



What's new?
-----------

   . Reduced network  latency  and  stack  memory  usage  during concurrent
     access to a drive.
   . Optimized network send and receive buffer size.
   . Added  on-the-fly  DOS  packets  compression  (using LZ4)  to  improve
     transfer rate of large files.  It  can  be disabled to save memory and
     CPU on low-end  systems  (either  on  handler  or  server side). A new
     library "netfspack.library" is now part of the package.
   . Fixed a hit in  NetFS-Explorer and NetFSInfo  when  probing a computer
     with no hostname (reported by jPV).
   . Fixed wrong ACTION_SEEK64 and ACTION_SET_FILE_SIZE64 when dealing with
     local files "Disk.info", ".backdrop" and "~backdrop"  (thanks to Frank
     Mariak and piru).
   . Fixed issues with ACTION_READ_LINK and ACTION_NEW_READ_LINK  (reported
     by piru).
   . Fixed an issue with ACTION_MAKE_LINK (reported by jPV).



Documentation:
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   See the AmigaGuide included in the package.