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#Help ME!!!!

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#39129From: Tom PolousNov 2, 1991 10:28 AM
HELP! I have an Atari ST in which I d/l files for my amiga, (no hd on my 500. (run out of space too fast!) I unlzh them there, have a seriel to seriel connection made, send the file from the ATARI to the amiga ZModem and rename the files with the real names (i.e. master.info) and I still get problems loading in the shell. And when the .info icon thingofajig is noticed by Workbench, it gives me an error #121 or #120. I have been wondering if the amiga programs carry headers like the macintoshes. I have my Atari suped up with emulators (mac,ibm,c=64) and I hope if on at least one of the emulators can get a file working. I also tried to send programs from my Wyse 386 to the 500 but still the same results. I often go to computer shows and buy software I know that is on compuserve since the amiga doesn't seem to like me. It is the 3rd one I have had in two months and I know the federal express man who has to pick up my Amiga and drop the new one off! (The Service contract with amiga is for one year and they'll replace it if it messess up) At this rate I'll have gone through 18 Amigas this year. Does anyone have this problem too? I know this is not a simple problem it is with the Mother board's main memory. P.S. anyone know if there is the Workbench built into a chip I could pop in for cheap? (Hate to have to buy a $500 hd or another floppy). Tom 'Disturbed' Polous
#39147From: Vic WagnerNov 2, 1991 1:00 PM
Tom, The reason for the errors can be found by using the 'fault' command in the CLI (you SHOULD use SHELL, you'll like it better). 4.work:Taarna2/sigs> fault 120 121 Fault 120: argument line invalid or too long Fault 121: file is not executable I'm clueless as to what you're trying to do, but you SHOULD note that MOST of the files here are executable from teh shell. I'm puzzled as to why you would have to rename the files. When lharc is run on the Amiga side, it always puts the correct names on the files. Maybe you should consider uncompressing the files on the Amiga side.
#39151From: Betty Clay/SYSOPNov 2, 1991 1:06 PM
Tom, Have you ever tried putting your modem on the Amiga and just downloading to it? Or have you tried sending the archived files to the Amiga and unpacking them on the Amiga itself? I would suggest that you try these. Betty