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| 2890.1 | Some basics... | FRAMBO::BALZER | Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029 | Mon Sep 04 1989 06:18 | 16 |
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I'm sure other people will have comments on this topic, and it has
been discussed for sure already in early notes, but in a nutshell
this is your "problem":
The clock is an independent task, it needs no other (disk base)
software. The calculator needs a math library from the LIBS: directory,
which is usually assigned to the libs directory on the Workbench
disk. If you had used the calculator before and no low memory situation
would have occured in the mean time, the math library would have
still been in RAM the request for the Workbench disk would not have
happened.
There are numerous other dependencies like this...
Pretty busy for the next few days,
<CB>
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| 2890.2 | Buy a second disk ! | NMGV02::CHAPMAN | | Mon Sep 04 1989 12:30 | 18 |
| Fancy finding you here Steve....
This will happen all the time with a one drive system and will drive
you nuts till you buy another drive. The system will look for all
sorts of things that the program needs on the sys: disk (the disc
that you boot from). It might be maths libraries, might be fonts,
might be commands from the c: directory. The only solution is to
put all this stuff on each disc with application programs (see earlier
notes as to what the minimum recommended workbenchh disc is). Then
either reboot every time or assign the logical directories to df0:
after each disk swap. You can also set up a rad: ram disk with,for
example, a c: directory and assign c: to that. But you need expansion
memory for that.
When in Nijmegen, you can come over for an 'Amiga session'
Colin
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| 2890.3 | | CURRNT::SOBOT | Steve Sobot, Basingstoke | Fri Sep 08 1989 12:15 | 13 |
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Thanks for the input.
Following much "in-and-out"ing of the disks, I think I'll have to
get another (floppy) drive. I did manage to get the calculator(working)
over to my own floppy after "invoking" it from the workbench disk
as <CB> suggested.
See you in Nij, Colin !
Cheers, Steve
ps. Photon paint IS a good laugh!
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| 2890.4 | Doesn't work for me | ENOVAX::BARRETT | Have your people call my people | Thu Apr 05 1990 14:41 | 7 |
| Hummm.... Everytime I try to copy a disk to disk (floppy to floppy, or
floppy to harddisk) I get an error -- something like "disks must be of
compatible type". As far as I know, 2 floppy drives are compatible.
Any one know what's going on?
Keith
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| 2890.5 | Floopy |= Floppy is wrong default tools | OLDJON::GERBER | For more info, call: 800/555-1212 | Fri Apr 06 1990 00:45 | 8 |
| DiskCopy requires that the disk be of the same type. (Floppy |=harddrive)
If it says floopy's are incompatable with each other, then the default
tool in the icons may not be set properly. I have seen this
occasionally, the way to get around it is to delete disk.info from the
destination disk and remove/reinsert the floppy so AmigaDOS will reset
the icon information.
-----Robert
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