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Offline AmiKitTopic starter

Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
« on: October 25, 2005, 04:00:16 PM »
Hello!

I'd like to support AmigaForever2005 Online Edition in my AmiKit.

There are some hints how to locate installed AF2005 files here and here. Thomas has helped me with pasting this information to Amiga side by using this PC script:

@echo off
echo >amikit\prefe\env-archive\amigaforeverdata %AMIGAFOREVERDATA%

Once the information is at Amiga side, I just need to convert this Win path to Amiga path (that means to convert Win backslashes "\" to Amiga slashes "/".

Could you please tell me how to do that in AmigaDOS please?
Thanks a lot!!!

Offline AmiKitTopic starter

Re: Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2005, 05:07:19 PM »
thanks for the answer, I apologoze for not being so clear:

When the AmiKit (package full of proggies, independent from AF2005) is started for the first time, it asks the user for some source of the AmigaOS files (because these OS files cannot be part of the AmiKit's archive, ofcourse). Therefore the user has to insert her/his original AmigaOS3.9 CD (or 3.5 or XL or AF2005 CD) and the OS files will be copied to Amikit. From this point the AmiKit is fully functional and independent filesystem.

Like I said, I'd like to support AF2005 Online Edition (that doesn't come with a CD) as a source of OS files for AmiKit...

So once I know where AF2005 is installed (via %AMIGAFOREVERDATA% variable) I use AmigaDOS script that copies these files from PC side to AmiKit's filesystem. The only problem is that the PC variable consists Windows-like backslashes. I need to convert them to Amiga slashes, so I can use this path with AmigaShell.