SCHMIDTM@CMR001.BITNET (01/10/90)
I've been trying to make opus 2.2 function properly, but ran into several snags. Has anyone been able to make a proper complete installation? Here are the problems I ran into: -I'm on a 1040st, single drive, and have both GDOS and G+PLUS. To begin the installation, I re-installed GDOS for the Epson FX-80. Now, the first problem was that ASSIGNER.PRG refused to accept the newly-created ASSIGN.SYS file as valid; it said that it was a bad file or had more than 2000 lines in it. This same ASSIGN.SYS file worked well with both GDOS and G+PLUS. I decided to let it go, because the OPUS install docs said that this was only to make sure that we had a 1:1 correspondence between screen and printer fonts, and I had that (I think). After that I tried running FONTWID.PRG. It took a while to discover that I always had to have the GDOS disk as A:, and the OPUS disk as B:, but after a while it ran ok. Now, when I loaded OPUS, I got the same error as several other people reported earlier, i.e. OPUS says that the screen fonts don't match the printer fonts, and won't enable charting! Ugh. Anybody out there got any ideas? HELP!!
tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) (01/11/90)
SCHMIDTM@CMR001.BITNET writes about problems running Opus 2.2 and getting it to accept the ASSIGN.SYS file. I found that Opus is very particular about the ASSIGN file format. In particular, the device entries can't have anything extra around them, and device number MUST be 2 digits long. That is, the following line will not work: 1r screen.sys But this one should be okay: 01r screen.sys It may have also complained when the drivers selected used upper case (or the other way around -- I'm not at my system right now, so most if this is just vague recollection). Play with the device driver entries though, it took me several hours to get it right. One of these days I'll get around to writing that ASSIGN.SYS file builder/maintainer I've been meaning to ... ah, well. -- Tim -- Tim Northrup +------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+ GEnie: T.Northrup | UUCP: uunet!crdgw1!brspyr1!tim | Air Warrior: "Duke" | ARPA: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com +------------------------------------------+