ahby@meccts.MECC.COM (Shane P. McCarron) (02/01/87)
Hi, I have been battling with RamStart 1.3 for the last several hours, and I'm getting tired of it. Here is the problem - We have an appletalk network with Macserve running on one of the HD20s. Several users don't have hard disks, and they want to be able to get at the utilities on the server instead of having all of them on diskette. Some of these utilities use temporary files in the volume they are launched in, so they can't be launched from a shared (read-only) volume. Also, launching a task over the network is a little inefficient. So, I figured that I could construct a script for RamStart that would create a RamDisk, copy the requested program into it, and then launch that copy. My script looks like: =MacWrite Utilities:MacWrite This should work, if I understand the documentation correctly. However, all it does is create the RamDisk and copy the file into it. Then it returns to the finder! What am I missing? It must be pretty obvious, and I will feel real stupid when I find out, but until then I am stumped! Please respond by Email. I will summarize all the lore I receive about RamStart to the net. -- Shane P. McCarron UUCP ihnp4!meccts!ahby, ahby@MECC.COM MECC Technical Services ATT (612) 481-3589 "They're only monkey boys; We can still crush them here on earth!"