Grabbit
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I tried to engage Grabbit tonight and was told it couldn't find printer.device
by Grabbit. I looked in sys:devs and there it was. I even printed off
something and it loaded fine then. I did get it to work by using my original
WB copy, tho. So…has anyone encountered this before? Is there anything that
interfers with Grabbit? I intend to copy the files off that wb disk onto
another and see what happes.
Thanks, Alan
If memory serves me correctly, that happened to me once, and I think the
problem turned out to be there wasn't a large enough hunk of memory for the
driver to load into. This was several months ago, so don't qoute me on it. If
you run into the problem again you might want to run "frags" if you have it, to
see what size memory chunks are free.
Whoa…frags?? I rebooted 3 times so there couldn't be a lack of free mem….
could there? I have pieced the diffs between the last time I used Grabbit and
this time and it was the addition of MoreRows to the config and Run to Ram:.
Alan
frags is a program that lists how many blocks and of what size the free memory
is present as. Just having say 50k free doesn't mean that a program that uses
45k will load. But, right after you reboot most of the free memory will be in
one large block unless your startup-sequence runs quite a few programs before
it lets you have the cli (or workbench). Like I said before, it was a long time
ago I had that problem, and I just can't remember what the problem was. Does
your startup-sequence do any assigns that might make it impossible for Grabbit
to find the disk files it needs?
Nope! Just a simple assign for my ram:c stuff. Basicly with a 512k machine I
just load the basics to ram and avoid running programs that would eat ram or
scatter things. I haven't messed with it since, but thinking about it, I would
wager the MoreRows screen adjustment might be the culprit.
Alan
P.S. SYSOPs: I uploaded MoreRows after making sure none of the DLs contained
"MoreRows". Either it was lost in the shuffle, ignored, or there is a copy of
it uploaded, but under a false name. What gives?
Alan,
Morerows was uploaded on Feb 28th, and is in DL 9 as MOROWS.ARC
Regards, Larry.