[syslinux] Custom .c32 module which can send tcp or udp packets

[Gordon Schumacher]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:

>> > Gene Cumm wrote:
>>     
>>> >> Peter, is it me or is asking about the capability of writing to a
>>> >> file, remote or local, coming up more often?
>>> >>

I could certainly use that feature, but I also readily recognize why
it's not very practical...!

> It's too bad that floppy drives have become so uncommon.  I wouldn't feel 
> so bad about supporting raw (no filesystem) writes to a BIOS-supported 
> floppy, perhaps with the syslinux core warning and prompting the user 
> before doing the first write.
Oh, indeed - or even a FAT-formatted floppy.  It's easy enough to tell
if the floppy is blank, after all... and even if it's not, FAT is pretty
well understood.  This would make the problem simple - but the
replacements for a floppy are a CD or USB stick, neither of which is
"simple" to be able to address...

I've not figured out a good solution here.