[Coco] Announcing pyDriveWire v0.2

[Alexander Wallace]

Very interesting! Congrats!

> On Apr 22, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Michael Furman <n6il at ocs.net> wrote:
> 
> pyDriveWire
> https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire/
> Python Implementation of DriveWire 4
> 
> PyDriveWire is a nearly complete DriveWire4 Server written in Python. The goal is to eventually implement all of the features available. The server also implements additional features that are not available in DriveWire4.
> 
> Features
> 	• Connections to serial ports at all supported baud rates: 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, 921600
> 	• Listen for incoming connection on any TCP port with a default of 65504
> 	• Ability to make outgoing TCP connections for serial-net converters
> 	• Disks to be mounted can be specified on the command line
> 	• Interactive console allowing all dw commands to be run
> 	• Support for DriveWire 4 virtual ports
> 		• dw commmands over vport
> 		• AT Modem-style connections
> 		• Outbound connections with ATD/ATDT or tcp connect
> 		• Inbound vports via tcp listen/join/kill commands
> 
> Notable Missing Features
> 	• Support for mounting disks via URL/URI
> 	• MIDI
> 	• Printing
> 	• OS9 /Z console windows
> 
> Requirements
> 	• pypy -- For maximum performance it is recommended to run the server with pypy. pypy is a Python interpreter that does JIT compilation and results in greatly increased speed
> 	• pyserial -- Install using pip
> 
> Supported Operating Systems
> 	• Any OS where you can run Python, including but not limited to:
> 	• Linux
> 	• macOS
> 	• Windows support is PRELIMINARY. Minimal testing has been done but it should work.  Please contact me off list if you wish to help beta test Windows support.
> 
> Installation (Linux/macOS/UNIX)
> 	• Download Latest: https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire/releases
> 	• Mac: brew install pypy; pypy -m pip install pyserial
> 	• Ubuntu: apt-get install pypy; pypy -m pip install pyserial
> 
> Run It
> Usage: ./pyDriveWire <port> <speed> [<file>] [...]
> 
>    ./pyDriveWire /dev/tty.usbserial-FTF4ZN9S 115200 ...
>    ./pyDriveWire accept <port> ...
>    ./pyDriveWire connect <host> <port> ...
> 
> Supported DW Commands
> 	• dw disk
> 		• dw disk show
> 		• dw disk insert 0 <file>
> 		• dw disk eject 0
> 		• dw disk reset 0 -- (re-open)
> 	• dw port
> 		• dw port show
> 		• dw port close <n>
> 	• dw server
> 		• dw server instance
> 		• dw server dir [<path>]
> 		• dw server list <file>
> 	• tcp commands
> 		• tcp connect <host> <port>
> 		• tcp listen <port> ... -- Remainder of options ignored
> 		• tcp join <channel>
> 		• tcp kill <channel>
> 	• AT Commands
> 		• ATD<host>:<port>
> 		• ATDT<host>:<port>
> 		• ATE
> 		• ATH
> 		• ATI
> 		• ATO
> 		• ATZ
> 	• Debugging commands
> 		• dw port debug <n> [true/false]
> 		• dw server debug [true/false]
> 		• dw server dump
> 		• dw server timeout <s>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Michael R. Furman
> Email: n6il at ocs.net
> Phone: +1 (408) 480-5865
> 
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