[Coco] Drivewire mixed results...

[Frank Pittel]

I'd like to chime in and confirm that it isn't difficult to compile
drivewire to work under linux. I was able to compile it in a few minutes
and just confirmed that it is trivial to compile. You will need to link
a couple of libraries while compiling it though. The command line that I
used was "gcc drivewire.c -l ncurses -l pthread". I don't have any windows
machines at home and use the linux server exclusively.

Frank


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:45:34AM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Allow me to help you clear your gross misunderstandings.
>
> There's nothing proprietary about DriveWire.  If you go to 
> http://www.cloud9tech.com/ and click on the support page, you'll find  the 
> DriveWire Specification document under the "Tech Notes and White Papers" 
> heading.  This document specifies, in detail, how the DriveWire protocol 
> works.  With this information, you could write your own server in any 
> language for any development environment you would like.
>
> Also, I understood Linux well enough to have written the following free and 
> open-sourced version of the DriveWire server at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver.  If you have just a little 
> bit of experience with compiling software under Linux, you should have no 
> problem getting it to run.
>
> Regards,
> Boisy G. Pitre
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> On Sep 24, 2008, at 4: 59 PM, Michael C.Robinson wrote:
>
>> I think the works with 98se bit is false.  I've had no luck even
>> using a 16550AF serial port that I know works.  Switching from my
>> 486 to my Pentium 4 XP laptop outfitted with a prolific usb to
>> serial adapter, drivewire worked.  I've been lied to before about
>> works with Windows 98, but that was a different company called
>> usbgear.com and it was a sound card.  I'm very discouraged that
>> Windows XP is the only version of Windows I have seen drivewire
>> work with because XP and Vista presumably as well require
>> activation.  The drivewire solution turns me off, if it worked
>> with Linux even if it continued to be proprietary I'd be a
>> little warmer to it.
>>
>> I could be wrong about drivewire not working with 98se, but has
>> anyone here gotten it to work in that environment?  If only Boisy
>> over at cloud9tech.com understood Linux, maybe there'd be a Linux
>> version.  At least I know now that the serial cable works.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to create a blank dsk image?  I want to write
>> my own programs and use drivewire in place of the traditional disk
>> drive.
>>
>>
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