[Coco] CoCoNet wireless milestone

[Roger Taylor]

At 06:17 PM 3/30/2009, you wrote:

>So it's actually a COPY operation? Copy from remote location (as if it
>was a device) to a disk?

Copy, Save, same thing.  :)  I'm reserving the COPY command for something else.

I'll try to touch on every subject in one block of text to make it 
easier to read.

SAVER doesn't mount a virtual disk.  It copies a remote file onto a 
mounted virtual disk.  The file can be anything that will fit on the 
disk (a web page, .php script response, .txt file, .gif images, *everything*).

DRIVE #,"URL" mounts a web disk that you can read and write 
to.  There's no ?WP errors.  The web copy won't be altered, but I am 
working on that ability to write Directly To Web Disks, no doubt.

DRIVE #,"URL" also has the side effect of allowing you to Mount any 
file as a disk image so that DSKI$ can read the file in 256-byte 
blocks into variables such as A$,B$ (128 bytes each).  This is 
nothing new, but doing it from a web file definately adds possibilities.

Using just the above two command enhancements, a *LOT* is 
possible.  But I'm not stopping there.  Oh no.

** One of the most powerful but simple features is the automatic 
ability to append variables to URLs, to run web scripts from the CoCo 
and to get the results back as a file saved to a virtual disk. **


-- 
Roger Taylor

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