"Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC"@Xerox.COM (10/03/88)
I'm busy trying to sort things out having just taken delivery of a Triangle 40Mb hard disk and an SLM804 laser printer. My main problem seems to be with ASSIGN.SYS files. At the moment, if I want to run (say) Timeworks DTP after having run Easydraw, I have to fart about renaming the various assign.sys files on the root directory of drive C and then reboot. Hardly satisfactory. I have tried combining the two assign.sys files, but whichever way I try it one of the applications barfs and complains about not being able to find its font files. My general approach is to put *all* font files and drivers into one directory, set the path correctly in the 'master' assign.sys, then for each device make a list of all fonts specified in the various assign.sys files of the applications I need. The problem with Timeworks DTP and Easydraw appears to be that they have different names for the same device number .. ? As I have no documentation whatsoever on GEM, I'm kind of blundering about in the dark. Speaking of which, can anyone recommend any GEM documentation? If anyone out there has an SLM804 and has managed to sort out some sort of working assign.sys, I'd be very glad to hear from them. Oh, while I'm here, another question. Is there such a thing as a Postscript driver/emulator for the SLM804, ie. something that will let me print Postscript files as if the SLM804 was a Postscript printer? OK, so considering who I work for I should be asking for an Interpress driver, but .. -- Hugh ARPA: Hippo.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM
davidli@sim2.labmed.umn.edu (Dave Meile) (10/06/88)
In article <881003-063651-3167@Xerox>, "Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC"@Xerox.COM writes... >... My main problem seems to be >with ASSIGN.SYS files. At the moment, if I want to run (say) Timeworks DTP >after having run Easydraw, I have to fart about renaming the various >assign.sys files on the root directory of drive C and then reboot. Hardly >satisfactory. One solution you might wish to look into is a program called G+Plus, which replaces the Atari GDOS with a functional equivalent. The nice thing about G+Plus is that you can have individual ASSIGN.SYS files for individual programs (ie. WORDUP.SYS, DGELITE.SYS, etc.) which you call up from a desk accessory. I've been using the package for about a week, and it hasn't interfered with any of the many programs I've run, and I haven't seen the system slowdown which I've associated with the GDOS program itself. You can get more information through GEnie, or write to the folks at CodeHead Software (Box 4336, N. Hollywood, CA 91607) for more information. -- Dave Meile