Multiview snag

[motrucker]

I just did a new install of 3.1 on my A2000 (in prep for a new 3.5 install as soon as my "new" CD drive is in).
Problem is, for some reason Multiview is not working. The file is where it belongs (I think) in the Workbench/Utilities drawer. Any ideas why it refuses to work? What am I forgetting.....

[motrucker]

Do you know what the assign statement is supposed to look like? I tried putting a copy in C, and still nothing. Thought maybe that copy of Multiview might be corrupted, so I tried another copy - still no go. This is driving me crazy.

[motrucker]

It will not run, either from double clicking on a file, or the Multiview Icon, or from CLI. It just sits there - and does nothing, with NO error message at all.
BTW at this point this is just 3.1.
Some else pointed out the Multiview library needs to be installed too, and it wasn't. But with it installed, there is still no action. This is frustrating.
I may try one of the Multiview replacements on aminet......
 
@ Oldsmobile Mike  -  I will not argue that 3.9 might be better. But, I don't have 3.9 (and I do have 3.5) I don't know that I can even afford 3.9 right now. I'll keep an eye out though.

[motrucker]

Yep, 3.1 ROMS. I'll put the 2000 back together in a minute, and give you all the startup sequence......

[motrucker]

; $VER: startup-sequence 38.22 (24.4.92)

C:SetPatch QUIET
Version >NIL:
AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21

MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
assign excellence!: Data-Three:excellence!
assign doctools: Data-Three:doctools

IF NOT EXISTS SYS:Fonts
  Assign FONTS:
EndIF

BindDrivers
Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
  List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s"
  Execute T:M
  Delete >NIL: T:M
EndIF

SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

IPrefs

Echo "Amiga Release 2.1.  Kickstart $Kickstart, Workbench $Workbench"

ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
  Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE

LoadWB
Execute S:WPAssigns

EndCLI >NIL:
 
 
Here's the startup sequence. Any ideas?

[motrucker]

I just noticed something. I am missing a few libraries:
    intuition.library ,  gadtools.library, and graphics.library. Could this be the problem? If it is, where do I find these libraries?
I never had a problem with this feature in the past. Why now?

[motrucker]

I am adding the statement to the startup sequence now. One thing - although the one line says Workbench 2.1, notice the kickstart & workbench numbers. This IS a 3.1 install. Maybe I upgraded it from 2.1 to 3.1 way back when I first got this machine - not sure.  I guess I should wipe the drive and start from scratch?
I really do appreciate the help. Many thanks.

[motrucker]

Thank you all for your thoughts on this. I thought the best way out was a completely fresh install. The only reason I didn't do that at first was the ton of stuff I will have re-install - but that's a small price to get it working right.
So, I'm off to start a fresh install.
Again, thanks to you all.

[motrucker]

All is fine now. I wiped the Workbench partition, re-formatted it, then installed 3.1 from scratch. Now my A2000 boots so fast I can't hit the stop watch fast enough. Damn it's fast! Multiview works. It actually looks like everything works.
So, until I can figure out how to set my "new"CD ROM's SCSI ID, this will do fine.
Does anyone know how to set the jumpers on a Toshiba XM-5401B CD-ROM drive? I've already logged onto the Toshiba forums and asked that question. I'll see what I get back.
Until then, I am actually rather happy with 3.1 OS. I have to re-install some software, but that's a small price for a machine that works this well.
Now I have to get a new PPaint 7.3 package. Glad to see that's back in development......