#help
6 messages in this thread
I am the proud owner of a new Amiga 500 and using Amiga term. Everytime I try
to download a new disk I get a request to put back Amiga Te Term back in disk
drive.
Also I have downloaded arc.exe to the AmigaTerm disk and can not get loaded,
all I get is not a object module.
I know I doing somthing wrong but I dont know what. Maybe I should go back to
my 128. Also if somone kowns of a good book in plain english that I could read
please let me know.
THANK YOU
ANGELO PAGLIOCCA 73715,1705 EX
Angelo, don't go back to the 128 – the Amiga like anything else new takes
awhile to get used to. The fastest way to download is to RAM: so you don't
have to worry about which disk is in the drive for the download. When you want
to transfer from RAM: to DF0: just type COPY <RETURN> – you'll be prompted for
the from and to enabling you to copy the file to a disk that isn't your
Workbench or Amigaterm disk etc.. As to ARC.EXE – it is executable as is. Did
you rename it to ARC and put it in your c directory? Do you have Amigaterm set
at 8-N-1 ? Marlene
If you get the "file is not an object module" message, that
probably means you need to chop the file. X-modem will always
give you a file that is a multiple of 128 characters long, so
if the original file is not a multiple of 128 characters long, you
will end up with extra characters on the end of the file
that upset the Amiga executable loader. There are many chopping
programs available. One of them is my XChop2. I think
it's in the Utilities DL.
Mike 70030,160
Mike, I'm aware of that – however ARC.EXE is executable as is there isn't any
padding. Marlene
SysMom:
I think that you meant that the version in the library is already
padded (rather than there isn't any padding). 73, bill
Bill,
Just to clarify, ARC.EXE in DL 4 is padded with Amigados "hunk_end"
longwords, which fools the Amiga's loader into accepting the whole thing as a
valid file. Just as an aside, Aterm 7.3 does this automatically when you upload
an executable program.
Regards, Larry.