[Coco] MShell Linux and Mac Testers Needed

[Bill Pierce]

I'm pretty sure I have MShell working for Linux DW4 servers, but it still needs testing by others. Also, I cannot test this on a Mac.
The problem the previous dw4 cmd that I was using was that it was hitting "hidden" files and they had extra bytes in the descriptor which was throwing my parser off. I reverted to an older dw4 cmd that ignores this and it now works. I'm hoping that the Mac problem was similar and that it works on Mac dw4 servers as well.

 

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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Sent: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 8:22 pm
Subject: [Coco] MShell Linux and Mac Testers Needed

 I decided to work on MShell's problem in reading the server's native drives on Mac and Linux DW4 servers. I think I have the problem solved. It works so far on my Linux VM with VCC running in Windows. There's still a couple of details to work out, but I need testers to bounce ideas off of.I am going to need someone who is running DriveWire4 (not 3) on a Linux as well as a Mac machine for their file server for the Coco 3 & Nitros9 to test the new version of MShell.There are requirements in doing this....Coco3 w/drivewire or Coco3 emulater w/Becker Port512k memory minumumHard drive or VHD based file system (for the system drive).NitrOS9 3.3.0 w/drivewire drivers (scdwv, scdwp, /p /n and at least /n1 - /n2). Also must have the Pipe drivers in Nitros9 (piper, pipeman, & pipe).Linux or Mac running Drivewire4 4.3.3o (may work down to 4.2.0, not sure).Send me a private email and I'll send details and a disk image for testing.Thanks :-)Bill Pierce"Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPediahttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_PageGlobal Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forumshttp://www.tandycoco.com/forum/E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco