jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (07/15/89)
About three weeks ago someone mentioned that they could not get the changes in their control panel in Amax to save to disk and that after a cold boot they were back to the original settings that were on the disk when it was transfered from the Mac to Amax. I seem to remember a reply on how one could get the changes you make to the control panel to save, but at the time did not copy the info, and now I would like to know if I am remembering right. I have tried ejecting disks after I exit control panel both eject and drag the icon to the trash can, but this does not seem to save the info either. Is there some trick I am missing. I did not notice the problem because I had already had all my desktop parameters set before I transfered my boot disk from my mac at work. Then a friend tried to make changes to his and could not. I tried and found the changes did not survive a cold boot. Please send replies via email, Thanks in advance! Russ Jacobson Illinois Geological Survey jacobson@uiucuxe jacobson%uiucuxe@a.cs.uiuc.edu jacobson%uiucuxe@uiuc.csnet [ihnp4,pur-ee,convex]uiucdcs!uiucuxc!uiucuxe!jacobson
morris-ng@cup.portal.com (Yuklung Morris Ng) (07/17/89)
RE: Why can't one save the Control Panel using A-Max? Well, I posted the msg months ago, but final I got the answer is no. It is because Mac saves some info of Control Panel to the parameter ram (battery backup) and not to the disk. The A-Max is clever enough to save the info to ram. But if you cold boot the computer, it is gone. The only way to go around this is to get an INIT (some program type in Mac world) to retrieve the info from disk which is save from a different system program (like the General and Mouse). However, as there is no need for a Mac owner, there is no such thing in the PD. Well, maybe an ST owner will have the answer, or even you can program it yourself. +---------+----------------------------+----------------------------------+ | ///| Morris Y. L. Ng | Usenet: morris-ng@cup.portal.com | | /// | Computer Science & Finance | Portal: Yuklung Morris Ng | | /// | San Jose State University | Home : (###)###-#### (Guess?!) |