frel@randvax.UUCP (Dave Frelinger) (06/26/91)
I was wondering if anyone has gotten a menu bar clock to work under A/UX 2.0.1? Things like SuperClock 3.9 that work under 2.0 don't seem to be working under 2.0.1. I am running from a personal systemfolder, and have tried running without anyother inits active. unfortunately, I get a system error when it loads SuperClock 3.9. Is this problem unique to my machine, or a general problem with something that has changed between 2.0 and 2.0.1? Are there any other menu clocks that do work under 2.0.1? cheers, Dave
tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) (06/27/91)
In article <2983@randvax.UUCP>, frel@randvax.UUCP (Dave Frelinger) writes: |> |> I was wondering if anyone has gotten a menu bar clock to work |> under A/UX 2.0.1? Things like SuperClock 3.9 that work under 2.0 |> don't seem to be working under 2.0.1. I am running from a Well for me SuperClock 3.9 didn't work under 2.0 but does work under 2.0.1. "Programs" like SuperClock try to write to themselves - they store setup information and suchlike in resource forks. This is a very un Unix like thing to do so problems often arise. I don't know what's happening in this case but I'm guessing that a reason why we see so much "mine works", "mine don't" is to do with programs writing to themselves and file protections. And it's complicated because there are two write protection schemes in A/UX. The MacOS and the Unix scheme both have to be set to allow writes else writes won't occur. Check them both. Another thing I'm not sure about is that it might be necessary to have the resource fork and data forks in separate files. It seems conceivable that if both were in one file and a program tried to write to its resource fork, it might not be allowed to because the Unix side of things thinks that the program is trying to modify itself. But I haven't played with such things and in this case SuperClock just looks like a data file to the Unix side so I don't think this is relevant in this case (or any other case). Just a thought. Cheers, Tony Cooper
chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton) (06/27/91)
In article <2983@randvax.UUCP>, frel@randvax.UUCP (Dave Frelinger) writes: > > > I was wondering if anyone has gotten a menu bar clock to work > under A/UX 2.0.1? Things like SuperClock 3.9 that work under 2.0 > don't seem to be working under 2.0.1. I am running from a > personal systemfolder, and have tried running without anyother inits > active. unfortunately, I get a system error when it loads SuperClock 3.9. > Is this problem unique to my machine, or a general problem with something > that has changed between 2.0 and 2.0.1? Are there any other menu clocks > that do work under 2.0.1? > The OLD MenuClock init works just fine. It's hard to find, but it may still be on sumex. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shotton Internet: cshotton@girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu BIAP Systems UUCP: ...!buster!brain!chuck "Your silly quote here." AppleLink: D1683 MacNet: shotton