Re: Sweet16 plans

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

On Aug 31, 5:27 pm, Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 1:38 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 31, 1:11 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 31, 2:56 am, spectrumda...@nospam.com (Ewen) wrote:
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> > > > If you have Marinetti intalled on your Sweet16 GS, then another way to
> > > > transfer files between the Mac and Sweet16, is to FTP them using SAFE2.
> > > > You need to know the IP number of your Mac, and I think will need to
> > > > turn on file sharing as well.
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> > > Does that still work in Sweet16 2.1.x? I don't think it does, with the
> > > new way of virtualizing the network card.
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> > I'm wrong. I just tried it, and if you're on Ethernet, you can indeed
> > FTP from your emulated IIgs into the host Mac to transfer files back
> > and forth. This is happy news for me, as it means I don't have to feel
> > quite so badly about this HFS situation. But I'm still working on that
> > drag and drop files solution as a temporary improvement until I
> > finally get folder sharing working, sometime down the road.
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> > Sheppy
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> One of my hesitations on the ftp (SAFE2) approach is that I haven't
> any luck preserving file-type with ftp, while the HFS.dmg approach was
> better.

No, you won't be able to preserve file types with FTP, but you can
still get stuff across, by transferring only archived files across, or
in the worst case scenario, by fixing the types on arrival.

The drag & drop thing isn't exactly the be-all-and-end-all solution,
but it'll be a start.

I now have code in place on the Mac side that builds a list of all the
files you've dragged on (including running through all nested
subdirectories), and there's code that lets the GS determine if there
are file copies pending and if so how many files there are. The next
step is to let the GS actually obtain the file information and do the
copies. That I'll be working on starting later tonight or tomorrow.

This feature, by the way, is why I never enabled support for dragging
and dropping disk images onto the video window, which many people had
requested. I had predicted that someday I'd need this capability
instead. :)

Sheppy