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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: djos on August 05, 2012, 07:15:41 AM

Title: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 07:15:41 AM

trying to edit my startup-sequence file with KS/WB3.1 (booting from floppy) and all im getting is "Editor" followed by a colon ":" on the next line - not sure what im doing wrong as when I used my 2.04 rom and 2.04 WB disk i got a fairly traditional text editor.

Am I just being a n00b? :o

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: Kronos on August 05, 2012, 07:45:59 AM

"ed s:startup-sequence" typed in a CLI/Shell window should do the trick.

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: Matt_H on August 05, 2012, 07:54:08 AM

"Edit" is a completely different command.

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 07:55:38 AM

Quote from: Kronos;702268

"ed s:startup-sequence" typed in a CLI/Shell window should do the trick.

Lol, Im an idiot, i was typing "edit" not "ed"! *facepalm*

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 08:05:50 AM

Another n00b question, what do I run to enable reading PC Disks? I assumed it was the dos drivers on the storage disk?

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: Kronos on August 05, 2012, 08:16:03 AM

Yup there should be PC0 and PC1 in storage/dosdrivers but these will only give access to 720k floppies (unless you have an HD-drive) while most PC-floppoes were 1.44MB.

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 08:29:48 AM

Quote from: Kronos;702272

Yup there should be PC0 and PC1 in storage/dosdrivers but these will only give access to 720k floppies (unless you have an HD-drive) while most PC-floppoes were 1.44MB.

Is there any trick to using them? (double clicking on PC0/PC1 doesnt seem to do much)

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: gertsy on August 05, 2012, 09:09:15 AM

All you should need to do is fire up the driver by double clicking on it in, or putting it in the devs/dosdrivers drawer..  PC0: for DF0:
Then insert a 720K formatted IBM disk and it should come up.  

If not, something else is wrong.

Ohh BTW if you want to format a 720K disk in Windows use this command : format a: /t:80 /n:9

Don't forget to cover the HD Tab !!!

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 10:51:26 AM

Thanks, I do have a bunch of DD floppies already so I'll give them a go.

nice one, that explains why right click format doesn't seem to work on DD floppies. :D

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: MelbourneBen on August 05, 2012, 11:53:58 AM

I use VI, its much more powerful then ED. You can find it on aminet, its probably called VIM.

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 12:16:05 PM

Cheers Ben, I'm operating without my CF-IDE ATM while I finish my combo DVD/CF/PSU unit so if it not on floppy it's not getting used ATM. :D

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: runequester on August 05, 2012, 05:37:31 PM

Quote from: djos;702291

Cheers Ben, I'm operating without my CF-IDE ATM while I finish my combo DVD/CF/PSU unit so if it not on floppy it's not getting used ATM. :D

That's real amiga spirit :D

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 10:00:32 PM

:D

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 05, 2012, 11:59:07 PM

Quote from: gertsy;702275

All you should need to do is fire up the driver by double clicking on it in, or putting it in the devs/dosdrivers drawer..  PC0: for DF0:
Then insert a 720K formatted IBM disk and it should come up.  

If not, something else is wrong.

Not sure what im doing wrong, but all I get when i put in a DOS 720k Floppy disk is "DF0:????" - I copied the PC0 and PC0.info files into the devs/dosdrivers folder, rebooted, tested to see if the driver was loaded by double clicking on PC0 (it was), but it doesnt seem to work.

I believe I should get a "PC0:" disk mounted (instead of DF0:) but I dont. :confused:

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: zipper on August 06, 2012, 10:41:50 AM

Check if you have the required filesystem in L: (crossdosfilesystem or whatever).

Title: Re: Question about Editor in WB3.1
Post by: djos on August 06, 2012, 12:04:27 PM

Thanks, i'll have a look.

Thankfully today I made a null modem cable and got Amiga Explorer working, it's slow but really handy! :)