SCHMIDTM@CMR001.BITNET (01/16/90)
I'd like to thank everyone for the help they've given
me in getting opus 2.2 to work properly, especially
Graham Thomas in the UK. With his help, I got everything
sorted out.
Here's what needs to be done:
1) The ASSIGN.SYS file that GDOS creates for you
uses 1-digit device numbers for the SCREEN.SYS driver.
These need to be changed to two digits with a leading 0
for OPUS to understand them properly. Thus, where GDOS
puts a line like:
4p SCREEN.SYS
you need to have:
04p SCREEN.SYS
instead. Now, ASSIGNER.PRG will run properly.
2) As the documentation suggests, OPUS is a big program,
and needs a lot of memory. When running FONTWID.PRG, the amount
of memory free for font usage is displayed as "workstation
memory". You have to make sure that the "font memory" it
displays after it has finished its work is less than the
"workstation memory" for OPUS to accept the fonts.
On a machine with more than 1 Meg it's probably ok, but
on 1Meg machine, you need to remove any fonts (for both
screen and printer together) that you can, until the
"font memory" is low enough. You can easily tell which
fonts are the largest by looking at the space they occupy
on disk. In my case, I kept only the ATSS fonts, and
everything finally worked. If you have too many fonts,
you will get the ubiquitous "screen and printer fonts don't
match" message.
OPUS has a really nice charting facility, and it's
worth it. I've found only two problems so far:
The first is of course the trouble in getting the fonts
set up right, and that fact that the shortage of memory
problem could be handled with a clearer message.
The second is that when you want to load a file, if the
directory pointed to has no *.OPS (or whatever) files,
opus seems to hang. This doesn't happen all the time, and
it may be the file selector, not opus itself. But if there's
at least one file that matches the selection criteria, it
works well.
A side effect of shortening the list of fonts is that now
I can get everything (G+PLUS, the fonts and drivers, and
OPUS with its files) on one disk, with the data files
on another one.
Thanks again to everybody! I hope this summary of my
experiences will help other people out there getting
OPUS up and running. Send Doug Harrison his $15 if you
like it; it's a great bargain!
Mike Schmidt bitnet: schmidtm@cmr001
Bull HN Ltd internet: schmidtm%cmr001.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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