[Coco] Drivewire 3 Question

Fri Nov 19 17:13:03 EST 2010

Perfect! thank you

--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 11:42 AM

documentation is here:
http://toolshed.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/toolshed/toolshed/doc/

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> It did the same thing at command prompt. I was not able to find any documentation and I am guessing I am supposed to run these at a command prompt with a <file name> -command or number letter combo but still unsure.
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> --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com> wrote:
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> From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 2:19 PM
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> The toolshed tools all run from a command prompt, so that's why you're seeing the screen "flash" when you run them from Explorer. Open a command prompt (or just type "cmd" in the search bar in the Start window and press ENTER), then run the toolshed tools from there.
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> -----Original Message----- From: Derek
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:00 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
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> Got toolshed but Windows 7 is giving me fits when I run any of the utilities it flashes like I am trying to run an old DOS program. The docs said to copy them to a place in my path so I tried to copy them to c:\ root and also to my windows directory, tried compatibility modes too.
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> I feel so stupid asking but anyone have any experience with toolshed and Windows 7?
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> Thank you
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> --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
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> From: Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:41 PM
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> I haven't looked at toolshed lately so my memory may be flawed but that ability should
> exist as part of toolshed.
>
> The Other Frank
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> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:02:15PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> I could write a small utility to load and save individual .DSK files
>> in and out of a 256 disk virtual image file, if that would help.
>> -Aaron
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>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Mike,
>> >
>> > I mount the HD.dsk image in DW3 Slot number 3. And that .dsk image has > drive letters assigned1 to 255.  So I can switch between them by using > DRIVE # command. When I use a real coco disk and use the HGB-DOS Drive > on-Off command I can make it so that the real Coco disk drive is > assigned drive 0 so that makes it easy to copy real disks to the virtual > image using the backup command backup 0 to 20 for example.
>> >
>> > What the problem I have is with multiple disk images mounted in DW3 is > that the HD disk image has drives 0 to 255 and the other virtual floppy > disk image I mount in another DW3 slot is looked at as drive 0 as well. > So there is a conflict when working with multiple virtual images in DW3 > itself.
>> >
>> > I will check out the utility link you sent and see. thank you!
>> >
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>> >
>> > ** Mistrust Authority. Promote Decentralization **
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>> > --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net>
>> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
>> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> > Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 9:58 AM
>> >
>> > The decb.exe utility should allow you to copy files from your hd .dsk > file
>> > and your PC OS. Then you could mount these images separately in DW. Hope
>> > this helps. I may be misunderstanding what you're attempting to do > though.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > -Mike
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I re-read your message, Derek. Do you have a virtual HD that's has .dsk
>> >> files in it when you do a directory?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Well after trying for a few days I have broken down and decided to ask >>> for
>> >>> help.
>> >>>
>> >>> I have Drivewire 3 hooked up and running on my Coco 3. I have a >>> virtual
>> >>> .dsk disk image that DW3 sees as a virtual HD with the 255 seperate >>> virtual
>> >>> disks in the file. I have been able to get DW3 to copy back and forth >>> with
>> >>> my real Coco disk drives after I got the commands figured out.
>> >>>
>> >>> What I want to do and cant seem to get done is copying between virtual
>> >>> disk images mounted in DW3 server software. So I can take .dsk images >>> and
>> >>> copy the games over to the virtual HD image file.
>> >>>
>> >>> Right now I am mounting a disk image, copying to a real floppy disk, >>> then
>> >>> mounting the virtual HD image and copying from the real floppy to the >>> HD
>> >>> disk image.
>> >>>
>> >>> I am doing all this in RS-DOS not in OS-9.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you
>> >>>
>> >>> Derek
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