#JRComm Problem
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I've recently begun using the JRComm term program. The only problem I'm having
is that when loading and upon connection, it asks me to "insert volume FONTS in
any drive". I've just been hitting cancel and it works fine from there.
It's not really causing any problems but it is starting to get on my nerves.
I've just starting delving into the manual, egadz, and I'm sure I'll run into
the solution eventually, but does anyone who is using JRComm have a quick
solution? I'd be eternally grateful.
—Rich
I can't remember if it's in the General settings submenu but somewhere
there is a slot where you can change the default slot used by JRComm. My
bet would be that you have a font there that's not on your system and
JRComm is trying to look elsewhere. When it can't find it (after you hit
Cancel) it then goes to a default. Look through the pulldowns to find the
font option and play with that. Also do you have your fonts assigned to
(or something like) 'Assign Fonts: Sys:Fonts/'?
-Sean
Sean,
Thanks for your help. Like I said, I'm sure I'll run across the solution
eventually. In the meantime, I guess I'll just put up with it.
—Rich
Richard, JRComm requires it's own font (called JRC) in your SYS:Fonts drawer.
Should be included on the distriution disk.
John
Did it help at all? Maybe I should pull my docs out.
-Sean
Sorry Sean, I'm still getting the requester. I'm working with a floppy system
and Workbench 2.1. The docs don't include an install explanation (WBStrip) for
2.1. Once registered, I'll discuss the problem with the people who wrote the
program.
Thanks for trying. It really is a nice Term program.
—Rich
Hello Rich,
There's a program available here on CIS that's called SnoopDos. What
it does is tell you everytime a program tried to do something with a file.
It also tells you where the file is that the program is trying to access
and what the file is called. If you run this while you try to startup
JRComm it should tell you the information you need. When I was using a
floppy system I had two drives and (nearly always) kept my WB disk in my
internal drive. If you type 'assign' at a CLI prompt one of the
assignments that should come up is "Fonts: Sys2.1:Fonts" or something
to that effect. Is this happening? If not put an assign in your
User-Startup (in your S: directory) that reads "assign fonts:
sys2.1:fonts/" and then warmboot. The next time you run JRComm it should
at least be able to find the fonts: volume. Whether or not it has the
font it's looking for is another question and one that can be answered
partly by using SnoopDos and partly by doing a 'dir fonts:' to see if the
font indicated by SD is in the directory. If it isn't take a gander on
your JRC disk and see if the font it wants is there and copy it to your
fonts: volume. Holler (or type) if you need more help.
SNPDOS.LZH
-Sean
Subject: JR Comm Problems
Everytime I use JR, it asks me to put in a disk volume "VD0" Even when I set
defaults to something else it still does this.
Any help?
Cheers
Rod please reply via personal mail!
Look in your FONTS: (note colon, denotes logical device name) device
directory for these two sub-directories
fonts:jrcibm/8 and /16
fonts:jrc/8
and these files in the root of FONTS:
fonts:jrc.font
fonts:jrcibm.font
If you don't have them, look in the JRCOMM archive. If they're not there,
run JRComm, select the menu item OPTIONS|General, click in the font name
text string type in a font name like topaz.font and press return, the
cursor moves to the font size, type in 11 or 8 and click on the close box.
Then save the settings by selecting menu PROJECTS | Write Defaults, the
file requester pops up with s: selected and jrcomm.def in the filename
string. Click on OK and your new defaults will be saved in the S:
directory.
This should set-up your default settings and get rid of the problematic
requester that has been haunting you.
Chris
Chris,
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!! My problem was I am working on a floppy system with
Workbench in one and JRComm in the other so I had no other "logical device" to
reference. So I simply changed my JRComm disk name to FONTS and changed the
defaults on where the program was to look for JRComm files to FONTS and
everything is solved!!!!
Thanks for at least putting me in the right direction to think it through. Your
a godsend!
—Rich