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- Floppy disk install
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- The following procedure works equally well for versions 1.2 and 1.3 of
- Workbench and for single and multiple floppy disk systems. It is aimed at
- being straightforward enough so that even a novice Amiga user should have
- little, if any trouble completing it.
-
- First boot your system from a copy of your original Workbench disk, do
- NOT use the original, the WBStrip script will delete several files from
- it in order to make room for JR-Comm and the font files it uses.
-
- Next, you will have to copy the following files over to ram:
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- LHARC (version 1.10 is recommended)
- JR-Comm
- JR-Comm.info
- JR-Edit
- JR-Edit.info
- fonts.lzh
- WBStrip
-
-
- From the CLI type the following command exactly as shown:
-
- Execute ram:WBStrip df0:
-
- After the script completes you may want to customize the Startup-Sequence
- file in the S: directory. This script will have renamed the original
- Startup-Seuqence to Startup-Sequence.bak since it will have created its
- own file that just loads Workbench and deletes the initial CLI.
-
-
- Hard disk installation
- ----------------------
- First thing to do is to install the font files. The LHARC 1.10 command
- line to accomplish this is:
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- LHARC -m -x e <fonts.lzh> fonts:
-
- The fonts.lzh filename is in angle brackets to indicate that you have to
- prefix it with the path to where it's located.
-
- Although the JRCOMM: assignment isn't strictly necessary, it is suggested
- that you create a subdirectory somewhere in your environment and then modify
- your Startup-Sequence to make this assignment to this subdirectory every time
- you boot your system.
-
- If the assignment isn't made, JR-Comm will default it's file path to the
- S: assignment instead. If you don't mind the clutter that this can produce
- then leave it be.
-
- If you're mostly a Workbench type person, then copying JR-Comm and the
- icon for it to the directory you're going to launch it from is all that
- is needed and you can forget about the rest of the discussion here.
-
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- Redirection facility
- --------------------
- For CLI bangers you'd probably do best by copying the JR-Comm file over to
- a subdirectory that is included in your path so that it can be started from
- anywhere in your environment. The following hard disk directory structure
- will be used as an example for explaining how the redirection facility works.
-
- SYS:---------------------------------------------+
- | |
- jrcomm/---------+ word/---------+
- | | | |
- jrcomm.def | | jrcomm.def
- jrcomm.phones | |
- jrcomm.macros | paint/--------+
- | | |
- +--------------+--------------+ | jrcomm.def
- | | | |
- env1/ env2/ env3/ games/
- | | |
- jrcomm.phones jrcomm.phones jrcomm.phones
- jrcomm.macros jrcomm.macros jrcomm.macros
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- By assigning JRCOMM: to SYS:jrcomm, and having the "JR-Comm files" pathname
- in the general requester set to "JRCOMM:", JR-Comm will load its defaults
- files directly from this path, but only if there isn't a jrcomm.def file
- in the current directory from where you start JR-Comm.
-
- Confused? Ok, let's try this:
-
- Say that our current directory is SYS:games. When starting JR-Comm, it
- will load its defaults from JRCOMM: since there isn't a jrcomm.def file in
- the games subdirectory.
-
- But, say we're in SYS:word, since there's a jrcomm.def file there, JR-Comm
- will load that file instead of the jrcomm.def in JRCOMM:
-
- And this is where it gets interesting.
-
- Remember the "JR-Comm files" pathname in the general parameters requester?
- This pathname is saved in the jrcomm.def file and when JR-Comm is loaded, it
- will then look in the path that it is set to for any other files that JR-Comm
- will use.
-
- The two other default files are jrcomm.phones and jrcomm.macros. These
- files are loaded after jrcomm.def is loaded, and that's where the redirection
- comes from, the ability to redirect JR-Comm to another place so that a
- completey different configuration can be setup and used automatically as
- needed.
-
- So, let's say that the jrcomm.def file in SYS:word points to JRCOMM:env1.
- When JR-Comm is started from the word subdirectory, it will load jrcomm.def
- from there and then load jrcomm.phones and jrcomm.macros from JRCOMM:env1.
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- Pretty nifty, eh? Well, I hope you at least understand it...
-
- Good luck!
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