Re: Ciderpress Possible Problem Reading CP/M Disks

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message 
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A2Pro <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
>     So, will there be a CiderPress 3.0.1?

>Sure!  "When" is a good question though. :-)  I still haven't reinstalled 
>my dev tools after the Great Hard Drive Crash back in July, so it's hard to 
>just throw together a new release with a small fix.

Hi Andy,

Well (blush) since you walked-into that one... would you consider a larger 
enhancement to ciderpress? I have 2 requests.

1. Provide full support for CP/M disk images.

2. Provide a sort feature for viewing/editing Muliple Volumes like a CF card 
that will make just one volume visible or alternately selected volumes 
visible, or possibly allow the user to display the volumes and the files 
beneath them a different sequence. What this amounts to is a sort by volume 
feature, perhaps as a check box or some other settings in preferences.

Here's one Use Case scenario:

When I first got my CF card, I hadn't yet selected a sort order. The volumes 
came up in a natural order. How I wish I could return to that.

I used one empty volume for phoenyx's Aztec C SHK archive and renamed the 
volume AZTEC. All went well until one day I clicked-on sort by Pathname. In 
ciderpress Pathname includes the volume name. From that day forward I have 
been unable to figure-out how to display my main volume ahead of AZTEC since 
AZTEC sorts to the top and I must scroll down through hundreds of files to 
get to my main volume which is MDVOL1. Short of renaming the other 3 volumes 
to something like A1, A2, A3 I can't figure-out how to display them the way 
I want to see them.

A user sequence number solves this but might be a little hard to implement 
and maintain.

Listing volumes in a separate column would also be hard to implement.

No matter how it is implemented this is not trivial.

I guess this would complicate things by introducing a multi-column sort if 
it wasn't done in a simple manner. Perhaps on the dialog that has the 
read-only check-box some initial display options could be added:

Display: All [checkbox] or Selected [drop down list] > [selected list] and 
use the order selected as the volume display order for the other sorts.

That is all I am going to say on this for now and this asking for alot.

I would also be grateful on this if someone could tell me how to get back 
the natural unsorted order after using sort columns. This machine got hit 
with a trojan at some point so regedit isn't available until I fix it so I 
can't use regedit to search for it at the moment but could use a reg script 
to remove the ciderpress sort if possible.

Bill