[Coco] [COCO} VCC 1.43beta release

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 15:02:41 EDT 2013


On 4/18/2013 2:52 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem appears to be that you can't have the nitros-9 disk (or mostly
>> likely any disk already mapped to DW4?) inserted into a floppy disk  in VCC
>> - with it being accessed by DW4, it didn't like it...
>>
> Ah.. if I am following you correctly then the problem is allowing both
> programs to access the same file.  That usually will not work out,
> although DW4 does not leave a file locked and only locks for writes as
> necessary.  Most programs lock the file the entire time they have it
> loaded, and even if they don't, its really only a matter of time until
> some program gets upset with the other.
>
> You could turn off "Sync to.." in DW4, this will allow writes to the
> in memory copy of the disk but will not actually write them back to
> disk.  Then you can use the "Export" option to save the disk when
> desired, or toggle sync to on and off to cause a write back to the
> source.  Probably too much effort unless you really need it.
>
> -Aaron
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Not a big deal. Just need to remember to not have anything I'm using in 
two places at once, lol. ;-)



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