[Coco] os9/drivewire driver: success!

[Aaron Wolfe]

oops.. that wasn't meant for the list..  apologies and embarrassment from me
-Aaron

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I hope your holidays are going well.  I have made an awful lot of
> progress on the DriveWire stuff since you shared the pty code with me,
> but I've hit a wall and I think this code might be a way to help
> figure out what is going on.
> Basically I've got some really cool new functionality 99% done,
> including a coco side FTP client, a coco util that can grab URL
> content (works much like wget in linux), the ability to list
> filesystems on the DW server from the coco and copy files back and
> forth with a copy command.. all kinds of cool stuff.    And there is
> one horrible, nasty bug that is ruining everything :(
>
> Anyway, back to your code.. I think it can be combined with the
> bitbanger code in MESS and provide a bitbanger <-> pty interface.
> This would allow me to debug the DW OS-9 side stuff in the MESS
> debugger, which would make it so much easier to hunt down this bug
> (the bug causes the coco to go insane at very specific points which
> are just seeingly impossible to get close to without some kind of
> debugger)
>
>  I am totally new to MESS and not great with C, was just wondering if
> you had any tips or examples that might be useful.  You mentioned
> using the pty code with mess, seems like a very handy thing to do but
> I'm struggling to figure out how to use it.  Any insight or code
> examples you have time to pass along would be very much appreciated.
> I'll be beating my head against this for a while :)
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:53:47PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> I think a PTY is a great idea.   Doing the terminal support in a
>>> proper terminal program like minicom makes more sense than writing
>>> my own client.  My only concern is that im not sure if Windows users
>>> will be left out in the cold, but that doesnt bother me too much tbh.
>>> Mac os x should support pty with a little wrangling.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure OSX has at least some version of PTY support.
>> I Googled a bit for win32 APIs (of which I am blissfully ignorant)
>> but didn't find anything specific.  However, there seem to be some
>> implementations out ther -- maybe cygwin or uwin or something would
>> support it?
>>
>>> If you have anything in c that does a pty, i'd love to see the code.
>>> I'm much more comfortable in c than in os9 assembler, but no need to
>>> duplicate work if i don't have to.
>>
>> I'll attach the source for the MESS code I use.  It seems reasonably
>> clear, but feel free to ask questions if you haven't MESSed your
>> brain yet. :-)
>>
>>> Thanks, i should have thought of using a pty, glad you did!
>>
>> Hey, anything I can do to get you to make my life better... :-)
>>
>> John
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