#IRC Help
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To Anyone Who Knows,
I've been trying to install several Internet-based programs onto my system,
without much luck. The problem is that it has been about three years since
I've seriously used my Amiga 2000 for anything other than games. I never
learned AmigaDOS (although I have version 3.1), I can only do the basics with
the shell (changing directories, listing, copying, dearchiving files, etc.),
and if there isn't a working Install script, I'm lost.
Anyway, my latest project is trying to install Grapevine, the IRC client. I
have my AmiTCP 3.0b up and running, and I thought I installed the
socket.library in the proper, but the program won't run. I generally get a
message that says "Can't open socket.library. I don't know why. I've tried
everything I could think of, like reading the docs, looking in my manuals for
Amiga Dos. It all sounded surprisingly like Greek to me.
So, I want to find out. I want to be able to use the computer to the best of
my ability without posting panicked messages to the forum. My major fault in
life is that I need thing explained to me oftimes. So, if anyone has the time,
I'd appreciate some information, via the forum or through e-mail (102161,2461).
Thank you in advance for any help I may get. I truly appreciate it.
Sincerely, Derrick White
I am not really familiar with AmiTCP but, if the program is looking for the
socket.library in say the `AmiTCP:libs/' directory and you copied it to `libs:'
directory that could be the problem. Of course it could be the other way and
should be in `libs:' not the `AmiTCP:libs/'.
When you un-arced AmiTCP did it create a diretory structure? or just a lot of
files?
Be aware that typing ` assign ' at the prompt in a shell will give you all the
assigns created for software to fine its home directory. Also if say some file
should maybe be in `libs:' directory, but you don't know if you want to keep
it(the software that is), you can use assign to an existing assing like the
following
assign libs: AmiTCP:libs add
That would add that to the libs list so to speak, actually the system would
also look for a library in that directory also before returning an error
message about not finding it. Many different program(including the OS) rely on
Assings to find their way home, this lets commands be seperate routines that are
loaded into memory only when needed.
Matt Straney, 3 hours late, without your luggage
from Grand Ledge — on AutoPilot ——–>