manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) (10/30/88)
Well, I cry for help! I just got my 2000 and have a bridgecard. I installed the software on the 1.3 disk (after killing some fonts and other stuff, like more, clock, etc. I do not think I killed any critical files). The IBM side comes up and runs just fine. I have gotten Jlink to work fine. Here is the problem, when I go to open the shell it, it opens, and then as I type, I get strange characters. Topaz is gone. So, I thought, Aha, perhaps it needs the topaz font? So I copied it over, rebooted, opened the shell and patted myself for being so clever. Then I brought the PC Side up, and then came back and whammo shell no longer lets me type in topaz. Another problem has to do with the wonderful AREAD and AWRITE. I know that this has been discussed billions and billions of times. However, why when I copied a file from the amiga side did it trash my disk? I was kind to it, I really was. The startup sequence I did modifiy to include the new stuff in 1.3. Here it is: Addbuffers df0: 10 c:SetPatch >NIL: ;patch system functions BindDrivers Assign WB: S: Eeek, yet another problem. I used TxedPlus to save a copy of my startup sequence to the clipboard thinking I could transfer the startup file to my PC window (which is running Procomm) and a thousand blinks later, here I am. I had to reboot bridgecard as most of my keys would not work. The command I used: A> AREAD DF0:S/STARTUP-SEQUENCE A:START.TXT The drives whirled, my file copied, I then typed it, all was ok, and then I got 'Divide Overflow'. No matter what disk I put in the drive at that point it just said 'divide overflow'. I rebooted and of course the disk I copied the amiga file to was nuked. So tell me what is the story? My software version appears to be 1.2 on the bridge stuff. The only program that would tell me the version number was PCPrefs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark D. Manes "In Amiga We Trust" Programmer of Fortune, have compiler will travel "Here SCSI was a fuzzy place, a place where my SEEK could find no perch" ===========================================================================