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- Last Minute Addendums to Amiga.DOC
- ==================================
-
- On a 512k Amiga you will sometimes find that Icon programs report an
- insufficient memory in startup code. There are two cures for this:
-
- 1) Make certain that you have *nothing* in the ram disk.
- Also, make certain that you are not multi-tasking - for example,
- leaving a copy of the editor you are using running.
-
- 2) The startup-code consumes a certain amount of memory. You can
- sometimes run programs using
-
- 1> Iconx Prog
-
- That would not run as simply
-
- 1> Prog
-
- 3) If both of these options fail to work, then you need to
- buy, borrow, or steal more memory.
-
- _________________________
- STACK
-
- It is important to allow sufficient stack - at least 20000, and,
- for some applications, more.
-
- __________________________
- MAXMEM
-
- On a 512k amiga, you may have trouble loading the IEEE library.
- One solution to this is to set MAXMEM= to a sufficiently small
- amount to allow the program to run and the IEEE library to be
- loaded. This will not happen with more memory.
-
- _________________________
- Startup-scripts:
-
- Here is a sample startup-script that does assigns and such for you.
- It assumes that you have located the four files, Icont, Iconx, ITran
- and ILink in SYS:IconV6/Bin, and the header file ixhdr in SYS:IconV6/sysexe.
-
- ________________++++++++++ CUT HERE +++++++++++++++=================_____________
- Echo ""
- Echo "Hello!"
- Echo " Welcome to AMIGA ICON, V6.001"
- Echo ""
-
- Assign ICONT: IconV6/bin
- Assign ITRAN: IconV6/bin
- Assign ILINK: IconV6/bin
- Assign ICONX: IconV6/bin
- Assign HEAD: IconV6/sysexe
-
- Set UFILES=RAM:
- Set MAXMEM=300
- Set IPATH=SYS:!SYS:ICONV6!SYS:ICONV6/Examples
-
- Path add IconV6/bin
- Stack 20000
- Stack
- cd IconV6
- Echo "Current directory = SYS:IconV6"
- Echo ""
-
- Prompt "Icon-%N! "
-
-