TashTalk USB
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I did see that, but I mistakenly thought that since Finder appeared to display longer ones OK that things were a little flexible. It turns out they very much are not haha. I play a bit loose with file IDs currently in that they’re ephemeral on each start. I think I was likely going to bolt some hash on the end, or just finally commit to making them persistent.
And release 0.4.5 is building now with the change: https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/releases/tag/0.4.5
So far it's behaving perfectly now. Been copying files back and forth, launching applications from the server, everything working great. The truncation on long filenames currently appears is in the middle of the filename rather than near the end, but this is a minor quibble. Wonderful work, and thank you so much! Once I get another crossover cable, I'll be trying it out with cheesestraws' AirTalk modules!
Nice!! Glad to hear it works. So it’s sharing files just fine then? If so I’ll merge it in and have it part of the official releases from now on.
I kinda winged it on where to place the truncation ID. I thought having the extension at the end be unchanged (so it would be FILE~ABCD.txt vs FILE.txt~ABCD) might make sense for humans, but maybe not. What do you think?
I will never say no to improvements and feedback 
I have admittedly not tested pap-print with anything but the one LaserWriter I own, so I’d love to see it be extended to make ImageWriters work too.
I was hoping at one point to maybe make a little CUPS backend for it, or something like that so people could use the printers too with their modern machines.
I have admittedly not tested pap-print with anything but the one LaserWriter I own, so I’d love to see it be extended to make ImageWriters work too. I was hoping at one point to maybe make a little CUPS backend for it, or something like that so people could use the printers too with their modern machines.
I'm slowly tinkering with the code on Windows. I'm newish to rust and not very familiar with AppleTalk so it is slow going. So far I've noticed the pcap usage is a little different than linux/macos but I do have some hacked ethernet code connecting on windows. I do see some oddness with ethernet & localtalk not seeing some other devices, and, some large copies seem to hang at times. It will likely be some time before I have anything new that is PR worthy.
Do you have some preferred way to chat about these things if I'm able to make progress? Here in this thread? I try not to waste anyone's time.
Do you have some preferred way to chat about these things if I'm able to make progress? Here in this thread? I try not to waste anyone's time.
Here is fine for me, or even a GitHub issue maybe? Either works. I have no idea how it behaves on Windows but I know under Linux I could copy a 500 MiB file over EtherTalk repeatedly without issues. LocalTalk I did the same tests but with 30MiB ones over and over and that seemed good too.
I am wondering if you are hitting some framing issue - I have auto recovery but maybe it functions differently under windows.
I’d be more than happy to accept any PR that makes the Windows experience better, thank you so much for working on it!
I am wondering if you are hitting some framing issue - I have auto recovery but maybe it functions differently under windows.
I’d be more than happy to accept any PR that makes the Windows experience better, thank you so much for working on it!
Is it possible to make it run on High Sierra? Like I have iMac from 2009 and 2011 and High Sierra is the last Mac OS that can run on this? Otherwise I ll wait for Windows version
Huh weird, I wonder if it’s because I’m combining it in to a Universal app - 11 is the minimum for Apple Silicon. Maybe it raises the base version 
I typically use [cfg()] blocks for platform specific code in little helper functions. You should see a good few of them already for reference.
I have more changes for windows that I'll commit to my fork, soon. I've added conditionals so it compiles cleanly on windows & mac. I'd be happy to accept any criticism on the code since I'm new to rust especially before I try to PR the changes
What IDE & Debugger do you use? I'm trying Visual Studio Code and codelldb, however the debugger seems to crash or quit if I leave a breakpoint paused too long.
On both Mac & Windows I'm noticing nbp-lookup and thus pap-print isn't seeing other devices via localtalk or ethernet. I have an ImageWriter II and netatalk server, usually reachable over ethernet and phone net. So perhaps I'll spend some time investigating this. After all, who doesn't want to print from Windows 11 to an AppleTalk ImageWriter II??
What IDE & Debugger do you use? I'm trying Visual Studio Code and codelldb, however the debugger seems to crash or quit if I leave a breakpoint paused too long.
On both Mac & Windows I'm noticing nbp-lookup and thus pap-print isn't seeing other devices via localtalk or ethernet. I have an ImageWriter II and netatalk server, usually reachable over ethernet and phone net. So perhaps I'll spend some time investigating this. After all, who doesn't want to print from Windows 11 to an AppleTalk ImageWriter II??
