Re: Launching Apps From RAM Card

Ray Lopez, Ph.D. (lopezr@uthscsa.edu)
Tue, 07 Nov 1995 14:13:13 -0600 (CST)

>Thanks for the overwhelming response to help me fix my problem on launching
>apps from a RAM card. Unfortunately I have tried every suggestion without
>postive results. Here is what I have tried so far;
>
>1. Recreating the directory structure exactly including capitalization, that
>is;
> C:\GEOWORKS\WORLD
>
>2. Rescanning the Drives afterwards.
>
>3. Resetting the machine afterwards with the battery compartment reset
>button.
>
>What I have not tried (and hope I don't have to) is a complete cold reset
>(holding down A and B buttons while pressign reset).
>
>Could any of this have to do with having Graffiti installed? Are there any
>modifications necessary to be made to the GEOS.INI file? I noticed in some
>old mail that you could change your GEOS.INI file to have your other drives
>show up on your PC during File Linking. Does this change need to be made for
>mirroring drives?

Hi Zyg:

Have you tried DELETING the directories on the ram card, and then re-creating
them again? I think you should try this, instead of just renaming your
directories from all lower case to all caps. The reason for this is that in
order for mirroring to work properly (I think), the directories on the ram
card must not have the @dirname.000 file in them, which is a hidden file
that stores the GEOS name of a folder. In order to not have the @dirname
file created, name a folder in all caps, and with 8 characters or less, such
as GEOWORKS, DOCUMENT, WORLD, etc.

after you re-do your folders, do a soft reset, and see if that helps. This
should work, because mirroring is a built-in function of the GEOS operating
system and of the zoomer. Good Luck! ray

P.S. Also, be sure that \GEOWORKS is in the root directory!!!!
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