CompuServe Thread

#autopilot

6 messages in this thread
#125931From: mario AzzopardiDec 22, 1993 10:38 PM
Hi, I managed to download Auto pilot and relative docs. After uncompressing the file I installed the program, adding the appropriate assign commands but every time I click on the icon I get the following messages: a) "Autopilot.forums not found, using defaults" and b) "Cannot save "AP:autopilot.forums". Once I OK these system messages I enter the program, set it up and actually managed to get connected, and then everything froze up. That is, after several automatic set ups the cursor hust froze, crashed, whatever. I rebooted but all my settings were gone, even after I had saved them. OOOPS? What is it that I've done wrong here? Any help. This has already caused me several, no many, hours of frustration. 🙁 Mario Azzopardi
#125969From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPDec 23, 1993 1:44 AM
Mario, Did you reboot your computer after placing the ASSIGN AP: <pathname:autopilot> command in your user-starup? It sounds as if the assign is not correct… can you tell me EXACTLY what the path is to your AutoPilot directory?
#126016From: mario AzzopardiDec 23, 1993 7:09 PM
Hi, thanks for your prompt reply regarding my problems with Autopilot. I use Atalk3 as my communications program and I installed autopilot in the AT directory, so the path I indicated in my User-startup is Assign AP: Work:AT/Autopilot I also tried to take Autopilot out of AT and left it alone in work: then changed the assign to ASSIGN AP: Work:Autopilot but had the same results. Sorry to bother you again. Any furthur help will be appreciated. Mario
#126033From: Steve Bennett/SYSOPDec 23, 1993 9:44 PM
Your assign statements are correct… but you didn't say if you rebooted the computer so that they take affect. If you did, please let me know, but post your message to the AP section in AmigaVendor where you will receive support from AForums (as well as myself and others).
#126095From: Betty Clay/SYSOPDec 24, 1993 10:08 AM
Mario, You went one step too far in your ASSIGN. If AutoPilot is in the AT directory, then your assign would be: ASSIGN AP: WORK:AT The computer would then follow the path to Work, then AT, and in that directory it will find AutoPilot, for which it is looking. As you have it, it is trying to find a directory Work:AT/AutoPilot, and AutoPilot is a program, not a directory. (That is – unless you did make a subdirectory in AT: named AutoPilot, in which case your assign statement would be correct.) —Betty
#126047From: Betty Clay/SYSOPDec 23, 1993 11:13 PM
Mario, If you saved your settings, they must still be there somewhere. I suspect that you were in the wrong directory when they were saved, and they were saved to that wrong directory. Check your User-Startup to make sure your ASSIGN AP: statement is there and that it is correct. Then, after making sure, try doing your setup again and see if it does not work better. And let us know if you are still having problems. —Betty