[Coco] DriveWire 4 beta

[Aaron Wolfe]

I've updated the tar and zip files at
http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta

This version should solve the authentication issues that Steven Hirsch
found and helped troubleshoot.  The telnet server no longer uses the
built in authentication by default and instead uses OS9's login
program.  If you prefer the old behavior just add "auth" to the
options in SYS/inetd.conf

It also includes some new features like a built in Epson FX-80
emulator for authentic looking printouts, and general speed
improvements.
A disk image with the source and packed Basic09 executable for HTTPD
is included in the packages in case anyone wants to put another CoCo
powered website up.  I removed the code specific to my site, this
version will serve whatever is in index.html from /X1/WWWROOT by
default (easy to change that path in the source if you'd like).  Is it
time for a truly CoCo web ring? :)

-Aaron


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad you got it working.  If you are using the version on the web
> page, check for an updated file there later today.  We've made lots of
> changes in the source since that was put together, need to get that
> one current.  If you're building from CVS then you've probably got a
> more recent version so no worries.
>
> The telnet client is pretty weak right now and doesn't do any kind of
> terminal emulation itself.  For BBSing, I have great luck using the
> virtual modems with a regular terminal program like supercomm.  Just
> use /N as your "modem" and regular hayes commands should work.  One
> strange thing is that echo is off by default due to some other
> requirements, so ATE1 is a good first step if you want to see what
> you're typing to the modem.
> "ATDsome.bbs.host:12345" will get you connected, and the ANSI
> emulation in supercomm makes the BBSing work very well :)
>
> Anyway its nice to know someone else has it running, I think that is
> about 5 of us now.  You're the second Windows success I know of (after
> my test machine).
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>>
>>> http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta
>>>
>>> This software is not for the casual user who just wants to use
>>> DriveWire.  For that, please continue to use DriveWire 3, as it is
>>> well tested and easy to use.  This beta is neither.
>>>
>>> If you are interested in dw4, or have a compelling need to use the dw
>>> drivers from CVS right now, you might find this software useful or
>>> even fun :)
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>>
>>
>> Hey, I just briefly tried out the current beta of DW4.  I started it up on a
>> Windows XP machine I had been using for DW3.  I was able to wget the Google
>> home page and see lots of uninterpreted HTML scroll across the CoCo's
>> screen.  I tried to telnet to some BBSes, but was getting an error 208,
>> which I appears to be an illegal system call.  But it's definitely a
>> promising start.  If I get some time tomorrow I'll see if I can get it going
>> under Ubuntu 8.04.  Fun, fun, fun!
>>
>> JCE
>>
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