[Coco] A Thanksgiving Present to Coco/DriveWire4 users

[James Jones]

Aaron kindly pointed me at the URL to get the source from sourceforge; it
looks like it's set up to announce itself as 4.3.4f.

Unfortunately, as it stands, it doesn't look like it would build,
because DriveWireUI/src/com/groupunix/drivewireui/plugins/BASICViewer.java
has an import that refers to a class that I can't find. The import reads import
com.groupunix.drivewireui.CoCoView;

If someone knows where this is--it may be that I botched the cvs command to
fetch the sources--I'd really appreciate a pointer. (I typed

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at drivewireserver.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/drivewireserver
co -P *drivewireserver*

based on the instructions and drivewireserver apparently being the only
module.)

Also, speaking of CVS, apparently CVS repositories on sourceforge are as of
today read-only, and they recommend moving to either subversion or git.
NitrOS-9 is also on sourceforge, so I presume it will have to switch to a
different version control system soon, too.


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 7:48 PM, William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> DriveWire is very robust.  At one time I wrote some scripts that would work
> all four drives at one time.
>
> format a 86mb disk for /x0 and a 9mb disk for /x1
>
> 1) do a dchceck and then a dsave from one full sized hard drive image to
> another drive ending with a dump of the disk to the console
>     dcheck -w=/r0 /x2; chd /x2; dsave -itvs56 /x0 ! shell -p; dcheck
> -w=-/r0 /x0; dump</x0@
> 2) concurrently copy 2 large zip files (750663 and 1619401 bytes
> respectively) from /x3 to /x1 and do a compare concurrently ; do an
> integrity check of both zip files concurrently ; unzip each zip file
> creating directory paths concurrently ; dump the disk to the console
> concurrently
> 3) run the maze screen saver at the same time just because
>
> I can usually get through about 3 iterations of this torture test before
> VCC locks; only rarely will DriveWire have an exception error.
>
> Like I said, very robust.
>
> William H. Carlin, Jr.
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Drivewire can either prevent this entirely or allow a free for all,
> depends
> > on your settings.
> > When doing development work by yourself, it is handy and pretty easy to
> > manage things manually.  Mostly you'd have your build process write to
> the
> > .dsk and have your Coco read from it.  If you want something even
> remotely
> > safe or "user proof", or some way to share files between instances in a
> > read/write way, this probably isn't it.
> >
> > On Nov 24, 2017 8:59 AM, "James Jones" <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > About that sharing of disk images among instances... that would seem to
> > be
> > > asking for trouble with race conditions, e.g. sectors looking available
> > to
> > > multiple instances so that two files get written to the same place on
> the
> > > disk image. Is anything done to prevent this?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> > > coco at maltedmedia.com
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > You may or may not have seen my posts on the recent thread on the
> > > > "CocoPi3" about the unreleased version of DriveWire4, so as a
> reminder,
> > > > back in about 2014, Aaron sent me a (sort of) "Developer's" version
> of
> > > DW4.
> > > > It's identical to the current release, but with a few enhancements.
> > While
> > > > it was still fresh on my mind and also waiting for the turkey to come
> > out
> > > > of the oven, I decided I better take care of this before I forget it
> > > > (turkey will do that to ya).
> > > > Here is the "UNOFFICIAL" release of DriveWire4 Version 4.3.4e.
> > > > Please read the blog for the details...
> > > > This is NOT my utility, so please do NOT expect me to be supporting
> > it. I
> > > > am just one of the few who has a copy and I think it needs to be out
> > > > there...
> > > >
> > > > Enjoy!
> > > >
> > > > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/drivewire-4-3-4e
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill Pierce
> > > > "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way
> to
> > > > slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
> > > >
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> > > >
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