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- READ ME FIRST - GETTING STARTED WITH A-GENE
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-
- MULTI-DRIVE USERS:
-
- Format a blank disk and copy the files in the A-Gene directory of
- the distribution disk to this new disk. (Multi-Drive users will not
- need the files WBstrip and Startup).
-
- Re-Boot your Amiga (You will need to boot with either a standard WB1.3
- disk or at least one with Copy, Delete, Relabel, Iconx and NewCLI in
- your C directory.) Then click on the A-Gene.boot icon.
-
- An A-Gene heading screen will appear, and when you click on it you will
- be asked which disk your data disk is in. Assuming your blank disk
- with A-Gene on it is in the drive DF1: then click on
- the appropriate gadget. A-Gene will look for the data file Persfile,
- if this does not exist then the program will automatically create a
- set of blank data files. The program is then ready to accept your
- family data.
-
-
-
- SINGLE-DRIVE USERS:
-
- This demo version of A-Gene will work on a single drive system only if
- the program A-Gene and its associated data files all reside on the one
- bootable disk. To this end I have provided the script files WBstrip
- and Startup. To set up a single-drive version of A-Gene, proceed as
- follows:-
-
- 1. Make a copy of an original Workbench 1.3 disk using Diskcopy,
- X-Copy or a similar utility - DO NOT USE YOUR ORIGINAL WB DISK.
-
- 2. Copy the files wbstrip and startup to this Workbench copy and
- re-boot your Amiga with the new disk.
-
- 3. Open a new CLI or Shell screen and enter the command at the
- Amigados prompt 1> EXECUTE WBSTRIP
-
- 4. This script file will systematically delete unneeded files from the
- WB disk, relocate graphicdump to your C directory and replace your
- startup-sequence in S: with the file startup. This will leave enough
- room on the disk for you to copy across the files A-Gene, A-Gene.boot
- and A-Gene.boot.info. You will also have to copy your normal printer
- driver file to the Devs/printers directory and reset Preferences to
- take account of the correct printer driver. This will enable your
- reports to be printed out correctly.
-
- 5. Now re-boot once again using the new disk and you will be able to
- click on the A-Gene.boot icon to start A-Gene and proceed as under the
- multi-drive users instructions to produce your blank data files.
-
-
- Mike Simpson
- 26th Dec 1990.
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