| From: | John Lord |
| Date: | 20 Mar 2001 at 23:06:48 |
| Subject: | Re: WarpOS requester. |
Hi Dave
, On 12-Mar-01, you wrote:
> If you recall from alt.WoA I have a number of different startup-sequences
> from which I can choose at boot up. My system defaults to WarpOS but once
> every blue moon I can boot into a PowerUP enviroment. A thing called
> BootMan manages the startups.
I've just started using BootMan also, very handy, lets me choose from various
Linux startups also.
> When I boot into WarpOS I have this line right at the top of SS, even before
> setpatch:-
> BPPCFix install reboot >NIL:
> BPPCFix will reset your macine, once, after OS 3.9 has done it on cold
> boots. So we are looking at booting properly at the third time of asking
> after switching on, but if like me your machine stays on all day, it makes
> no difference and allows me to put the kettle on in the morning. :)
Very convenient.
> Further down the SS where the OS makes it assigns, I've added this:-
>> NIL: LIBS: SYS:LibsWARP ADD
> If I boot into PowerUP the there's no BPPCFix line, and the assign go
> elsewhere, I.e.
>> NIL: LIBS: SYS:LibsPOWER ADD
OK so far.
> So the libs for PowerUP and WarpUP live in their own lib dir and not the
> main one, and therefore when I boot into either Warp or Power, neither can
> see each others libs etc.
> The lib for PowerUP stuff under WarpOS (ppclibemu --> ppc.library) obviously
> lives in the WarpOS dir.
Do you also move the various sub-dirs (PPC, Warp3D) and any other ppc versions
of the many libraries into these new dirs, or leave them where they are?
> Incidentally. I found a new version of ppclibemu today, a new release.
> This one includes an env var that allows Candy Factory Pro to run under
> WarpOS. It would consistantly fail before and was one of the few programs
> that absolutely needed me to boot into PowerUP. Seemingly no longer
> thoough, although I did manage to get it to crash earlier, but I was being
> quite vigourous whilst testing :)
This is interesting, I had tried to get the Warp/PPC versions of datatypes etc
working in the past, but obviously didn't set it up right, so I would like to
give it another try.
Regards
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~>
Make good on the promise you made at graduation to keep
in touch. Classmates.com has over 14 million registered
high school alumni--chances are you'll find your friends!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/n4HqaC/DMUCAA/4ihDAA/d8AVlB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/