[Coco] MShell Linux and Mac Testers Needed

[Brett Gordon]

I should be able to test the linux stuff.  I can't get to it until Thursday
morn.  Not sure what the state of my os9 partition is.

Brett M Gordon
On Jan 20, 2016 12:40 AM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> 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.
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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
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>  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,
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