[Coco] CoCoNet

[Roger Taylor]

Some updates

CoCoNet is currently (while I type) reading a .php file from 
CoCo3.com once every SECOND in 115200 bps mode, and about 2.5 seconds 
in 57600 bps mode, which includes printing the readout to the WIDTH 
80 screen.  It's about 11 lines of text generated by the .php 
script.  The complete turnaround is 1 second in 115200 bps mode.  Impressed?

I also added 16-bit CRC checking for sector transfers, with multiple 
retries on bad sectors and unresponsive/slow server.

SAVEW "URL","COCOFILE.EXT" has been confusing to some even though 
SAVE still saves a disk file, only the new W means to save a web file 
to the virtual disk.

It stands for Save Web File "URL" to CoCo Virtual Disk File.  The 
saving is done by the PC/server to a mounted virtual disk.  To read 
the web file, we simply OPEN the file since it's on a mounted 
"disk".  To make a hardcopy of the file, just BACKUP (virtual drive) 
to (real drive), or COPY "virtual disk file" TO "real disk file", or 
just leave the file on the virtual disk since that's the idea anyway 
to get away from real floppies if possible.

The last test I ran went for almost 2 days straight and it read the 
front page of CoCo3.com over 16,000 times and dumped the HTML to the 
CoCo screen.  This was before the 16-bit CRC checking and 
unresponsive/slow server retries, etc. I added tonight.  This should 
help with PCs with dial-up connections or on a bogged down network.


-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com