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Originally Posted by E-Penguin
What would it take to make this work on KS1.3? (other than a miracle!)
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A massive rewrite from scratch, prolonged and extensive testing and the result would likely achieve only a fraction of what the Kickstart 2.x/3.x compatible version could do. Roadshow and its tools rely upon the operating system to be more reliable and dependable than what Kickstart 1.3 could provide. Also, the Kickstart 2.x/3.x operating system enables Roadshow features which cannot be recreated using the building blocks available under Kickstart 1.3.
You also have dependencies in the software which uses the bsdsocket.library, such as the utility.libray TagItem list support. That would have to be provided in some form. Launching shell commands robustly was very hard under Kickstart 1.3, so there probably would be no inetd-style superserver.
It's just too much work to throw a large part of the bsdsocket.library away and then cut down the CLI commands which are needed to set up the network interfaces and the TCP/IP configuration.