
TO: Ron Mitchell:  got your message.  Here's the short version:

(1)	COM1: on PC side:  I have to change an EQU in the source 
and reassemble a version for you.  Tell me what drive sizes you 
want for A: and B:; that's another EQU.  I never wrote the user-
configurable front end :-( :-(

(2)	ADAMserve boot disk.  I don't know what serial board 
you're set up for on the ADAM side.  There's a reserved location 
in (I think, it's been so long I'm not 100% sure) the boot block, 
which holds the serial baseport (01, 02 for MIBx-type serial ports
1 and 2 (this isn't their actual hardware baseport), and 44, 4C, 
54, 5C for Orphanware type (this is their actual hardware baseport
); all values in hex, of course.  I think there is a JR +2 around 
this location, so look at offset 2 of the boot block using some 
version of File Manager.  If you have changed serial baseports, 
you'll have to patch this value.

(3)	File Manager 4.0 standalone.  I have just paged through 
the source for FM023.ASM (the latest version, 9609.02), and it 
is based upon the hard disk version of File Manager.  Thus, it 
is looking for hard drive data structures (like the current 
volume byte at 58343 decimal).  If you run this over native EOS,
it will die.

	This being said, there's no reason why a non-HD stand-
alone version couldn't be made...one of the things I was very 
proud of with the ADAMserve versions of File Manager and HARDDISK 
was that I took out all the device- dependent code and made it go 
through EOS function calls for all I/O. Since ADAMserve drives 
are supported only at the EOS level (not at the ADAMnet level, 
in terms of expecting I/O to occur if you write commands to off-
set 0 of a DCB), I *had* to fix these programs. 

	Bottom line is, I would be glad to give up my commented, 
reverse- engineerd HARDDISK and File Manager code, if Tony 
Morehen would authorize it...my source would be more useful to a 
programmer than Tony's, because Tony's has practically no 
comments...

	Ron, this weekend I promise I will make you a COM1: 
version of the server, and put it up for FTP somewhere.  You make 
me feel so bad that I have no hacking time anymore...getting my 
research data out the door for the LA Neurosciences national 
meeting last week was accomplished only by about 3 weeks of 18-20 
hour days.  My kids are too busy at home for me to program 
anything at home anymore...and I'm dead by the time I get them 
put to bed.  I can't tell you how much I miss ADAM programming 
time...

	*Rich*



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