[Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager

[Bill Pierce]

The biggest problem with MShell is it supporting OS9, RSDOS, and PC file systems all in one program (or suite of programs). It's a hell of a lot of code and sacrifices were made to get it to work. One such sacrifice is error trapping... of which there's very little of. If MShell hits a disk error, it'll probably crash LOL. This is one reason I tried to eliminate user input and all choices are from known sources.
Also trying to copy RSDOS or PC files with illegal names (spaces, @#$%^&*() etc) will probably NOT be a good idea. I will eventually add a "copy as" function to allow renaming on the copy, but that's later after I get what's woking to be stable.


And to think, I was getting ready to post that I was dropping the project due to lack of interest.
I've learned a lot about OS9 and a lot about file systems while working on MShell. Ihope to stretch it much further with new modules.
 
 
Oh... Brett... How did it work reading Linux files from the server? I still can't get it to do it in linux in a VM.
Windows file systems read like a charm though. I still need someone with a Mac DW4 server to test it.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 2:17 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] MShell The Ultimate OS9 File Manager


On 16/11/2014 5:13 PM, Brett Gordon wrote:
> Hey Nick,  I can cobble together a whole disk for you... nitros +
> mshell all preinstalled installed.  The whole image can be zipped down
> to nothing.  Bill's Mshell is pretty slick, BTW, and I think all
> people should see it work.  Can you do DW?
>
>
That would be great!

I have a CoCo-SDC and the drivers are still a bit flakey at the moment.

The SDC supports drivewire.

Nick

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