[comp.sys.atari.st] RUFUS problem - it won't run!

carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (MiG - Miguel Borges) (04/05/91)

I ftp'ed RUFUS.TOS from the atari.archive.  I ran the self-extracting archive,
and then booted up the disk.  The GDOS-clone was in the auto folder, and
the fonts were in the GEMSYS folder, just like the archiver left them.
I ran RUFUS.PRG, but all I got was an alert box, saying something like
"GDOS falhure - Ungultiges Handle"  I assume it's german.  Anybody know
how to get this working?  Are there english docs available?

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rcte2p@menudo.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) (04/06/91)

carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (MiG - Miguel Borges) boldy writes in article <1991Apr4.181717.20318@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
>I ftp'ed RUFUS.TOS from the atari.archive.  I ran the self-extracting archive,
>and then booted up the disk.  The GDOS-clone was in the auto folder, and
>the fonts were in the GEMSYS folder, just like the archiver left them.
>I ran RUFUS.PRG, but all I got was an alert box, saying something like
>"GDOS falhure - Ungultiges Handle"  I assume it's german.  Anybody know
>how to get this working?  Are there english docs available?
>
>-- 
>C. Miguel Borges     |"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination...     |||
>carlos@odie.cs.mun.ca|Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged  |||
>an630@po.cwru.edu    |in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and     / | \
>ad040@yfn.ysu.edu    |constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."

Put the GDOS file in the autofolder.  Put everything else in the root.
Then reboot.  It worked when I did that.  I used a new disk, copied the
stuff over from my ramdisk, rebooted and then clicked on rufus.  Nice
program.  I wonder how it would act at 9600 bd.  Text routines don't
seem to be the most efficient....


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wolfram@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) (04/09/91)

carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (MiG - Miguel Borges) writes:

>I ran RUFUS.PRG, but all I got was an alert box, saying something like
>"GDOS falhure - Ungultiges Handle"  I assume it's german. 

It is, it means 'invalid handle'. Rufus works fine with me, but I use
it without GDOS. Try to boot without GDOS. Rufus should work then,
although you will not be able to use fonts.
I dont know if there are English instructions, yet I dont even have
the German ones... Try sending an email directly to the author, the
adress should be in the docs.
So long
Wolfram