[Coco] DriveWire 4 server version 3.9.98

[john T Chasteen]

Will this version work on a MS system 7 PC?
John 
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:15:38 -0400 Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
writes:
> Hi Coconuts,
> 
> I've posted an updated DW4 server at:
> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta
> 
> 
> This update includes some bug fixes and performance improvements, as 
> well as

> some new features specifically for use with Brett's CoCoBoot,
> docs at:
> 
>
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Us
ing_DriveWire#Use_with_CoCoBoot
> 
> 
> This is an update on the server side only, so it is not platform 
> dependent.
>  Just replace DriveWire.jar with the new version and you're ready to 
> go.
> 
> One feature that has been asked for is a way to automatically sync 
> changes
> made to the source image into the buffered version.  For instance
> maybe you load diskA.dsk, try it out on the CoCo, and decide to put 
> a new
> version of some file onto it from the PC using the Toolshed.  In 
> the
> past, you would then need to tell the DW server to reload the disk 
> image
> into it's buffer before the CoCo would see the change.  There is a 
> new
> per drive setting, "syncfromsource", that will tell the server to 
> look at
> the original image any time it's asked to read a sector.  If the 
> last
> changed
> timestamp according to the OS is newer than the server expected, it 
> will
> automatically reload it's buffer prior to answering the read 
> request.
> 
> You can set this per disk in a disk set definition, i.e.:
> 
> <diskset>
>   <Name>mydiskset</Name>
>   <disk>
>     <drive>1</drive>
>     <path>file:///F:/CoCo/mydisk.dsk</path>
>     <syncfromsource>true</syncfromsource>
>   </disk>
> </diskset>
> 
> You can also enable it for all disks in an instance:
> 
> <DiskSyncFromSource>true</DiskSyncFromSource>
> 
> This is somewhat experimental so please use with caution until it's 
> well
> tested.  Especially with disk images from remote source (web sites, 
> ftp,
> etc) the last modified date may not be reliable.
> If the server finds that the source timestamp has changed whilst it 
> has
> uncommitted changes in it's buffer, it will warn you in the log but 
> it
> *will* overwrite the source with it's version.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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