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    From Chris Evans (CJE/4D)@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 28 15:06:45 2020
    A lot of the pins of directories/files on my backdrop are on other RISC OS computers on our network. We use another RISC OS computer as a FileServer.

    It's been suggested this is a very unusual thing to do.

    Anyone else out there have pins on remote machines?

    Chris Evans

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  • From Tim Hill@21:1/5 to chris@cjemicros.co.uk on Wed Oct 28 21:20:38 2020
    In article <ant281545d07pErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>, Chris Evans
    (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    A lot of the pins of directories/files on my backdrop are on other RISC
    OS computers on our network. We use another RISC OS computer as a
    FileServer.

    It's been suggested this is a very unusual thing to do.

    Anyone else out there have pins on remote machines?

    Yes, both on another RISC OS machine and files and folders on a NAS via Sunfish.

    The pinboard file is also on the pinboard (!) as it has to be run again
    before all these remote objects show up; I have always assumed the
    pinboard's place in the boot sequence is too early to pick up Sunfish
    shares.

    T.

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  • From Chris Evans (CJE/4D)@21:1/5 to URL:mailto:tim@invalid.org.uk on Thu Oct 29 09:11:03 2020
    In article <58c6b52af8tim@invalid.org.uk>, Tim Hill <URL:mailto:tim@invalid.org.uk> wrote:
    In article <ant281545d07pErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>, Chris Evans
    (CJE/4D) <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
    A lot of the pins of directories/files on my backdrop are on other RISC
    OS computers on our network. We use another RISC OS computer as a FileServer.

    It's been suggested this is a very unusual thing to do.

    Anyone else out there have pins on remote machines?

    Yes, both on another RISC OS machine and files and folders on a NAS via Sunfish.

    The pinboard file is also on the pinboard (!) as it has to be run again before all these remote objects show up; I have always assumed the
    pinboard's place in the boot sequence is too early to pick up Sunfish
    shares.

    I also have the pinboard pinned for easy editing but not normally running,
    to get round remote objects not being present I pin an obey file of:

    If "<LanMan98$Dir>" = "" THEN run Share::FS.$.Apps.!LanMan98
    CONNECT98 L2 DESKTOP-DF67Q6D Desktop Chris
    Pin LanMan98::L2.$.Scrap/txt 3188 1836

    The pin of scrap/txt is set to be just under the above obey file

    Chris Evans

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    Tel: +44 (0)1903 523222
    chris@cjemicros.co.uk http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/
    Unit 16 Arunside Ind. Est., Fort Road, Littlehampton, W.Sussex BN17 7QU

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