On Sunday 13 Jan 2008, Terry Duell wrote: > Besides crashes, the main problem I have is being completely > bewildered about how one moves files/data from a RPC to RPCemu.
In general, this is no different to getting the data onto the linux machine. Various strategies will work for this, e.g. if you have a CD writer in the RPC you can burn things to a CD and read that in the linux machine. Or, if the RPC is on your network, you could use FTP to move the data. All you basically need is a way to get files from the RPC to the linux box. In any case, you're probably best off transferring your stuff in archives - you don't want to lose the filetypes, etc ;) I also found the (shareware) !FCFS very useful in this respect - it makes it very easy to backup an entire disc, for instance. Once you have the data on the linux machine, you can use RPCemu's HostFS to import it to the virtual RPC. E.g. place the archives in your HostFS directory and then use a dearchiver to expand them to your RPCemu's 'harddisc'. Or just expand them to the HostFS - whatever suits your style ;) You'll need some sort of 'bootstrap' archiver to get the ball rolling - I used the command-line "zip" binary copied into my HostFS directory as "zip,ff8". Other candidates are the self-extracting !SparkPlug, etc. About that ",ff8": On the linux side of things, HostFS stores the filetypes as part of the filename, e.g. an 'application' (filetype &FF8) like "zip" would be named "zip,ff8" in the HostFS directory. You can set filetypes correctly using the emulated RPC, of course. > Nothing seems to work! At the moment the version I have built is very > fragile and crashes at the drop of a hat. Does it crash when moving windows around? That's what kills RPCemu for me when using RISC OS 4.01 :( On the other hand, it's been very stable for me with RISC OS 3.71. > I will now see if I can figure out how this > subversion business works and see if I can build from the latest > source, and see how that goes. It should be as simple as: $ mkdir RPCemu_build $ cd RPCemu_build $ svn co svn://svn.riscos.info/rpcemu/trunk/ $ cd trunk/src $ ./configure --enable-dynarec $ make (most of that should look familiar if you've previously built RPCemu ;) HTH, Adny -- Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn | Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kann man uns am Himmel sehn | Techie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wir haben Angst und sind allein | WWW: verelanthe.co.uk/musus/ Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein! | UT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rammstein / Engel _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
