Using Econet - Acorn computer econet level 2/3 User Manual

Using Econet

Econet is a network — a set of computers connected together.
Each computer on the network is called a station. This guide
tells you how you can use Econet from your own station to
communicate with other computers on the network.
The most important station you'll be communicating with is the
file server. This is a computer attached to a device that can
record programs and data on to discs.
Through Econet, you can send work — for example, a program
you have written — to the file server, and ask it to store the
program on one of its discs. You can also instruct the file server
to retrieve what you've stored and put it back into your computer'
s memory: so, if you wanted to, you could get that program back
and run it again. Storing work is called saving; bringing it back is
called loading. With Econet, all the users on the network can
share the same file server, so they can save or load work
whenever they want to.
Your network may also include a computer connected up to a
printer: this is a printer server. If your Econet includes a printer
server, you will also be able to use the network to print out
copies of your work.
There will be a person looking after the day-to-day running of
your network — the network manager. If you have difficulties,
the network manager is the person to see.
This guide begins by explaining how you start a session of work
on the network, and then takes you through the rules for saving
and loading. After that, we explain all the other instructions you
can send to the file server and the printer server.
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