Re: Apple Commander 1.3.5.9

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<e327f26c-65ad-48bf-b99c-ea511fc89976@n6g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
 Moose <kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Nov 11, 11:41 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > AppleCommanderv1.3.5.9 is now available. This version features an
> > update by David Schmidt to allow writing Pascal TEXT files on DOS
> > ordered disk images. The current release candidate is here:
> >
> > <https://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander>
> >
> > Visit the AppleCommander web page on Source Forge:
> >
> > <http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/>
> >
> > --
> > John B. Matthews
> > trashgod at gmail dot com
> > <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
> 
> 
> WOW, excellent work Dr J !!!  :)
> 
> It's ages since I last checked out Apple Commander, and it has sure
> come a long way !!  Excellent work.  :)
> 
> A couple of very minor points if I may:
> 
> (1). The SWT ZIP file needs to be unzipped to the directory where
> Apple Commander is running (or anywhere in path is probably OK as
> well, but I didn't check this), otherwise neither version (GUI or
> command line) does anything - no error messages, nothing.  Could you
> please add an error / output message if the required SWT DLL files
> aren't available to tell the user what is wrong and how to fix it ?
> An error message something like this would be good:  "ERROR: the
> required SWT DLL files count not be found.  Please download the ZIP
> for the latest version of SWT from 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67414
> and unzip this file to the same directory as Apple Commander".
> 
> (2). I've only done a little bit of testing so far, but I've found a
> disk image that isn't acceptable:
> 
> ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II//images/games/file_based/AlienDrizzle-
> Alibi-AlienInvasion-Abstract-GoMoku-AlpineSkiier-Voyager-Serendipity.dsk
> 
> This disk uses Pronto-DOS, a pretty rare beast in the scheme of
> things.  Hardly worth your time to add support for this ....  Just
> thought I'd mention it though, just in case you feel like adding
> support one of these rainy days ....   ;)
> 
> (3). Wild-card support would be nice for the command line version.
> Then again, it's so easy to loop through the required files with a
> shell script or DOS batch file.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for continuing work on AC and for improving it so
> much !  :)

Thanks for very helpful feedback! I've only heard of ProntoDOS. The 
stand-alone command line archive, ac.jar, shouldn't require SWT. The 
command line needs mkdir and rmdir, too. Any luck using the new partial 
path support on the command line?

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>