#Getting View to Work
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After weeks of trial and error I have finally achieved some success with
Whap! I am down to one last problem and it involves View. I have NO problem
at all and the program works fine as long as I assign all my messages to
RAM:, boot the computer with a Workbench disk in df0: and place the Whap
Disk in df1:. I can read my messages, print them, respond to them etc.
HOWEVER, if I boot with Whap in df0: and put a blank formatted disk in df1:
for my messages the program will not let me View the messages I get. Also
when I boot with Whap in df0: I get a message;
Unknown command Sys: System/FasMemFirst I am then left
in the CLI and I type "Whap!" and then enter the program.
Getting back to View, the messages DO make it onto the disk in my second
drive, the program just will not let me View them. If I use the "TYPE"
command in the CLI I can see what they say. I feel that I have the
parameter section of Whap set up properly and as I have said, As long as
all my messages are sent to RAM: the program works fine. What do I need to
change to make it work when I assign them to my CompuMessage: volume in
df1: I would appreciate any help with this matter for once I get it
resolved I will have a perfectly functioning program.
Rick Herbert
Vancouver, BC
If your error message stated EXACTLY as you stated in your letter, I know
what the trouble is.
Error message you stated was: "Unknown command Sys: System/FastMemFirst".
If you noticed, it didn't say "Unknown command Sys:System/FastMemFirst",
which would have meant that your FastMemFirst wasn't in the "System/"
drawer. What it did show, at least in your letter, was the space between
"Sys:" and "System/FastMemFirst".
If you DO have FastMemFirst in your System drawer, then you should open
your Startup-Sequence, and delete that space in that path listing, if it IS
there.
Good luck, Rick! This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds….4….3….
2….1….0….-1….-2….
Darn! It didn't work! Must have been written on an IBM (sly grin)…
**** Vance ****
Rick,
Check your parameter screen. I'm pretty sure you have told View! the
messages are in Ram:, but you are putting them on df1:. I would suggest
that you boot your machine with your workbench, and then run whap! from
df0: with your blank disk in df1:.
I did it that way for a long, long time, and it worked well.Otherwise,
you might put your blank disk into df0: for the messages after Whap! starts
running.
……Betty
Thanks for your help! I'd left several messages over the past few weeks
attempting to explain the problems I was encountering with Whap but I
wasn't sure I was making myself clear. Believe it or not I did solve this
final one just today after weeks of trial and error.
I could not understand why the program worked perfectly when I assigned my
messages to RAM:, but if I tried to designate them to my second drive by
assigning them to the Volume Name (i.e. CompuMessages: ) on the parameters
screen the program would not let me View them. As I said, the ______.MSG
file would make it there, I just could not read it.
I'll tell you what I did to achieve COMPLETE success and maybe you can tell
me WHY it worked. I merely created a Directory on the blank, formatted disk
and called it, Whap. On the parameters screen I typed in the 'message' box,
CompuMessages:Whap/. I couldn't believe or understand it but when I went
and collected some messages this setup worked!
Could you let me know why I could NOT View my messages when I simply
assigned them the Volume Name of a blank disk, but COULD when I created a
directory and saved them within that directory on the blank disk ? Thanks
again.
Rick Herbert
Vancouver, B.C.
Rick, you've got me on that one! STeve might explain it- or Jim – but I
sure can't. I'm glad you have it going, though. It's a great program, and
getting better.
……Betty