Re: Apple Commander 1.3.5.9

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> 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 !!!  :)

I second that!   8o) 

>> 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".

Good point. I've been banging my head trying to figure out why I can't 
get AC to run. Unzip that SWT into the same folder and away I go.   ;) 

>> (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 

Played with it for a while before giving up. 

>> 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 ....   ;)

Advantage Ciderpress. I built a new image for DOS 3.3, copied 
the files from the ProntoDOS over to it and VOILA!, it now works. 

You should be able to do this in AppleWIN as well. Find a DOS 3.3 
disk image, copy it, rename, delete all the files and insert it as drive 
two, and copy the files. 

What I don't understand is, ProntoDOS should be compatible with 
DOS 3.3, as this is how it shows up in Ciderpress. 

>> (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, I don't know if I have too high a version of JAVA now or what, but, 
the ac.jar doesn't seem to run on mine either.  Oh, duh!, I just figured out 
why. I'm trying to run it from Windows GUI. I need to run it from the 'cmd' 
window. Sorry, nevermind.  LOL 

Bill