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From: johnc@mcs.com (John Crookshank)
To: lightwave@webcom.com (lightwave)
Subject: Re: Render from PC to Amiga PAR
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On 30-Jun-95 08:29:12, DMetcalfe (downinit@teleport.com) E-Mailed:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Animation Productions wrote:
>> If the Amiga is running a Net File System (NFS), can Lightwave PC
>> render directly to the DDR: device on the Amiga PAR? theoretically it
>> should shouldn't it? If so then does anyone know of NFS Amiga
>> Software? I currently have to FTP 300MB at a time after render.
> You can currently run NFS Client only on the Amiga. Meaning you can
> mount PC drives. The problem, as it's been explained to me ("Connect
> Your Amiga" from IAM) is that Amiga FFS doesn't provide for a 32bit
> serial # on files and therefore NFS Server won't work. Check it out,
> something FAT can do that FFS doesn't! Wow.
> You should be able to mount the PC drive that you're rendering to and
> have an ARexx script running to pickup the files as they're rendered and
> write to the PAR. Not sure if there's a commercial product to help with
> this, Batch Factory may have something suitable.
If you can find TRexx, it had a program called "Sentry" that could be told
to watch for frames to appear in a directory, and then launch a DOS