GEnie@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (12/22/89)
Date: 12-20-89 (09:14) Number: 1682
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: ARCHIE WARNOCK Read: (N/A)
Subj: F-PC HANGS? Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
I've been in the process of getting v3.5 of F-PC up and running on both
my office and home machines. No problem at the office (a PC's Limited
286-12) but at home I seem to hang the machine from time to time. I
_know_ it's Forth, and shouldn't be surprised by the ability to kill a
machine, but I'd like to know if anyone else has seen the problem. I'm
running an early genuine IBM-PC, to which I've added a V20 chip, an
enhanced VGA display, two extra floppies and a 60 meg RLL drive. There
are a few device drivers loaded - one for the extra floppies, one for
the EMS board, etc. None of these _ought_ to cause a problem.
When I run the installation program, all the files unpack successfully
but the program hangs at the point where it's supposed to ask for the
FPATH. I get the instructions ("edit the path...") but no path is
displayed and the machine is dead, dead, dead (Big Red Switch time).
I also managed to hang the computer in the same way after manual
installation by somehow trying to escape from one of the help nesting
levels, but I'm not 100% sure what I did.
Oh yes, I've _not_ replaced the kernel with OBK or any such thing (at
least, not yet). Might that fix the problem? Does anyone know what the
problem is? Has anyone else seen it?
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Date: 12-22-89 (09:33) Number: 1684 To: ARCHIE WARNOCK Refer#: 1682 From: DAN MCGINN-COMBS Read: YES Subj: F-PC HANGS? Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE I, too, had a similar problem with F-PC v3.5 INSTALL program. When I tried to install it on my PC (a PS/2 50z) at work it did ok. When I took it home to my AT, it bombed at precisely the same spot, when it wanted the paths. I then tried it on a Zenith Lap top (which I also had at home), and it worked fine. Just then I realized that at work and on the Zenith, I had let it default to the root directory + FPC (In other words C:\FPC.......) while on the AT I had put it in a sub\sub\directory (C:\FORTH\FPC.....). When I retried it on the AT and let it default; it worked fine. I came back to work, where I have a D hard disk and reinstalled it there and it worked on a different disk as well, but not in a sub\sub\directory! There you go, it _is_ the Forth (uh, install program!). ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated program. Report problems to: 'uunet!willett!dwp' or 'willett!dwp@gateway.sei.cmu.edu'