#Starting to sink in
Hi Trent,
Well it worked! This working in shell is starting to sink in. After
decompressing the files successfully, I transferred them to a seperate drawer
and tried to start the program in WB with double clicking. After getting
'Program failed (error….etc)' feedback, it finally dawned on me to go back to
shell and execute it from there with the proper cd command. It worked and now
learning another way to interface with the amiga is giving me added confidence.
For your information, I am a new MacCIM user (4 days now) with an A4000/040
with Toaster installed, 2 meg chip ram, 18 meg ram, and 240 meg HD. While my
bread and butter is MAC desktop publishing, I want to expand into 3D and
multi-media work and feel that I should exploit the best of both platforms. I
also felt that subscribing to compuserve would help me with my steep learning
curve and you are proof that I made the right decision.
By the way, I am using DiskMaster for file management and am starting to feel
comfortable with it. You also talked about Autopilot for the Amiga. Do you
think I also hook up my Amiga to Compuserve as well in order to download files
created for their respective platforms? Would this double my subscription cost?
If not, what other hardware/software would be needed (besides another modem or
comm. card)? (Remember, at this point in time you're talking to a 8-year old
mind when it comes to hardware, configuration set-up procedures and the shell
envoirnment on the Amiga). Can you suggest any easy-to-understand books on
understanding and navigating AmigaDos and shell?
By the way, are you a sysop in this forum? I did't see any reference to it in
the message headers. If you're not, feel free to pass me on the one if I start
to get on your nerves with these novice questions.
Len