[Coco] pyDriveWire Q

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:15:59 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 April 2020 18:13:36 n6il at ocs.net wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:55:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Drivewire has died, can't find the RXTX libraries
> > >
> > > So trying to make pyDriveWire run, but there seems to be a total
> > > lack of install and configure hot-to's. recommended to run it with
> > > pypy, which has been installed, but the failure msg is, shall wwe
> > > say, less than helpfull.
> > > gene at coyote:/CoCo/pyDriveWire$ pypy pyDriveWire
> > >   File "pyDriveWire", line 3
> > >     python=$(which pypy)
> > >            ^
> > > SyntaxError: Unknown character
> > > That don't mean jack to me.
> > >
> > >
> > > Anybody have a clue where to find this stuff?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > > --
> >
> > Gene, Please try:
> >
> >    ./pyDriveWire
> >
> > Let me know how that goes for you.
> 
> instantly:
> 
> ERROR: Must supply one of --port, --accept, or --connect or config
> file
> 
> usage: pyDriveWire.py [-h] [-s SPEED] [-a] [-c] [-H HOST] [-p PORT]
> [-R] [-x EXPERIMENTAL] [-D CMDPORT] [-U UIPORT] [-C CONFIG]
>                       [--daemon] [--status] [--stop]
>                       [--pid-file DAEMONPIDFILE] [--log-file
> DAEMONLOGFILE] [--debug] [--version] [--hdbdos] [--offset OFFSET]
>                       [--noreconnect] [--print-format {pdf,txt}]
>                       [--print-dir PRINTDIR | --print-prefix
> PRINTPREFIX | --print-file PRINTFILE] [--print-cmd PRINTCMD]
>                       [FILE [FILE ...]]
> 
> And of coarse my bash prompt comes back.
> 
> > --Mikey
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Gene:

    Assuming /dev/ttyUSB0 is your serial port:
./pyDrivewire --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --speed 115200

    Then you have to issue commands like:
pyDriveWire> dw disk insert 0 /home/gene/NOS9_6809_L2_v030300_coco3_.dsk
    (to mount said disk for drive 0)


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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