Re: Virtual serial drive

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

in article k25j9q$61f$1@dont-email.me, David Schmidt at schmidtd@my-deja.com
wrote on 9/4/12 2:03 PM:

> 
> Right, the options seem to be either overwrite Disk II or ask P8 to
> allocate space.  I suppose that makes the case for one of each flavor...


David,

Thanks for taking an interest in this project. I always thought it had some
potential if it could only be developed more.

If you're open to even more requests, would you consider expanding Terence's
Windows NT/2000/XP "server" end to run under a OS X compatible Unix? I
suppose somehow we'd need a way to specify which serial device to use,
rather than the Windows COM1 port.

Also, to ensure compatibility with virtually all P8-based programs, I like
the idea mentioned of being able to overwrite and use the Disk II driver
space, but could a P8 System file do the mod loading the code to select 'IN'
the virtual serial drive driver, and (when desired) a corresponding P8
System file do the mod to reverse it by loading back the Disk II driver and
switching things back 'OUT' to the Disk II driver?





Hugh Hood