[Coco] Ann: FUSE Support for Toolshed

[Boisy Pitre]

Linux and Mac users will be happy to learn that FUSE support is now  
part of the ToolShed project.  FUSE is a user-land file system  
package that allows programmers to easily add a file system on one of  
the supported operating system.  File system development can be  
difficult to debug because of its inherent system-state properties,  
and FUSE makes this much easier.

The big advantage here is that you can use native tools like Mac OS  
X's Finder and Linux's Nautlius File Browser to browse both OS-9 and  
Disk BASIC disk images.  Now with FUSE support available, you can  
simply mount a disk image as if it were a block device and start  
copying files to/from the disk image, view and edit files, create  
directories (in the case of OS-9), etc.

The integration of FUSE into the ToolShed project was relatively easy  
based upon the architectural decisions made in the project early on,  
and with additional testing that I hope will come from interested  
developers in this community, I believe this will become an integral  
part of development for the CoCo.  Windows users should know that  
FUSE is being worked on for that platform; hopefully someone from the  
community will take an active part in supporting ToolShed for Windows.
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Boisy G. Pitre
Email: boisy at boisypitre.com
Web: http://www.boisypitre.com/
Phone: 337-781-3570

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Boisy G. Pitre
Email: boisy at boisypitre.com
Web: http://www.boisypitre.com/
Phone: 337-781-3570