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- PENNYWISE INSTALLATION
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- *** IMPORTANT - READ FOOTNOTE ABOUT THE t: DIRECTORY *****
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- First, if you are serious about using PENNYWISE, make a backup of
- the distrinbution disk.
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- PENNYWISE allows you to maintain your data in any directory, by
- any file name. This simplifies installation somewhat. If you are
- using
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- STANDARD AMIGA DISK DRIVES, the disk containing
- PENNYWISE and the HELP directory must be named
- 'PENNYWISE'. Failing that, you must ASSIGN (from the CLI)
- 'PENNYWISE:' to the disk where the HELP directory resides.
- Otherwise PENNYWISE will not find the HELP files!
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- HARD DISK OWNERS should create a directory of a suitable name,
- and place 'PENNYWISE' and the HELP directory in it. You must
- then ASSIGN 'PENNYWISE:' to that directory!
-
- Assuming you have created a directory called 'PW' on your
- HARD DRIVE 'DH0:' for this purpose, the best place to make
- the assignment is in the Startup-sequence. Somewhere after
- the hard-disk is MOUNTED place the following in the startup-
- sequence text file:
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- ASSIGN PENNYWISE: DH0:PW
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- GAINING MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE (SPEED):
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- MICRO FLOPPY DISK USERS are advised to increase the
- buffer size of the drive where the PENNYWISE data will be
- maintained. I found that a buffer size of 40 works well.
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- Once again, the startup sequence is the best place to do this.
- If the data disk is kept in DF1: you should add
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- ADDBUFFERS DF1: 40
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- to the startup-sequence.
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- Alternatively, and only if you have a MEGABYTE or more of
- memory and Workbench 1.3, you might consider attaching
- installing 'RAD:' and keeping your data directory in it.(don't
- forget to copy the data back to disk before switching the
- computer off)
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- HARD DRIVE USERS will be able to take advantage of a special
- version of PENNYWISE (only available to shareware subscribers)
- which maintains its index files on disk.This approach is impractical
- (too slow) with FLOPPYS.
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- FOOTNOTE:
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- The Report Generator in PW needs the assignment to a directory t:
- for its temporary files. Check your workbench STARTUP-SEQUENCE for a
- statement like:
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- ASSIGN T: SYS:T
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- If it is not there you must ensure a suitable assignment is made. I
- like to
-
- ASSIGN T: RAM:
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- althought the choice is largely yours. If you don't understand all this
- STARTUP-SEQUENCE stuff, make the effort!
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- A good starting point would be MEGADISK or the AMIGADOS manual.
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- However, here are the steps to satisfy PENNYWISE's hunger for a T: assignment.
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- You need a text editor or word-processor than can output simple text-files.
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- 1) Load & run the Text editor:
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- 2) Activate the Text editors 'OPEN' or 'LOAD' option.
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- 3) The file to load is 'S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE'
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- 4) If all is well you'll be looking at the startup-sequence instructions.
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- 5) Go through the instructions and look for
- ASSIGN T: xxxxx
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- where 'xxxxx' might be 'DF0:t' or 'SYS:T'
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- 6) If the ASSIGN T: does not exist somewhere within the the text
- (and before the 'ENDCLI' that appears at the end of the start
- up sequence') enter a new line
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- ASSIGN T: RAM:
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- 7) Now re-save "s:STARTUP-SEQUENCE"
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