connecting via amiPC to a 1200

[sir_inferno]

thanks a lot, amiga guru person  :-D

[Ryu]

right well i've had a look at the files in the archive seem to be fine... it should just be a case of copying the things in the directory "PutToPC" to your PC and everything else to the amiga. Then you should just be able to double click on Install... If your copying the files from your PC to you amiga make sure your copying the .info files over too... also I've put up the amigaguide files as HTML on my own webserver (my amiga). They will be there for the next 6 hours or so.... hope thats some help...

oh and before I forget heres the URL :-)

www.amiga.kicks-ass.org/PC2AM/MAIN.html

[sir_inferno]

gosh, thanks a lot man, just 1 question, i double click on install, but which one, the one with the colorful icon and the computer on it, or the one with the hammer on it? and what do i type in the box that comes up on the hammer one, cause the one with the icon of the pc doesn't work, it says cannot run your program or somthing... :-?

[Ryu]

should just be a case of double clicking on the colourfull PC icon.... assuming you got the filels transfered to the miggy correctly.... whats the hammer icon called?

[sir_inferno]

in answer to you're question, it's called 'install'.

The comp icon is called 'install~1'.

But when i double click the 'install~1' comp icon, it goes something like "Your executable cannot be run".

and on the guide thing in said the files had to be "installed" using an installer  :-?

and it told me to download from here: ftp://ftp.luth.se/

[Ryu]

aha thats it then... the filenames have been truncated by windows....

rename install~1 to install.info


then it should run... though anything with a "~" in it is incorrect... the filenames must match the filenames the guide says you should have... stupid old 8+3 format...

[sir_inferno]

oh rite gonna be all sorted now  :-D

[Ryu]

my bills in the post

[sir_inferno]

ahhhhhhhhhh, k i'll work out the rest myslef, or i'll just come back here  :-D thanks ;-)

[sir_inferno]

oh well i renamed the files, but still no result, the install.info says "Unable to open your tool 'installer'" [random]!?!?!??!


 :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-(  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?

[Ryu]

right i'll take you through the manual install process then... seems it might be easier

you will need to show all files on the amiga side, you can do this by pressing down the right mouse button to get the menu up, and goto window and then show, all files...

heres the step by step guide:

1. copy everything from the c directory to your C: directory (in your workbench partition (show all files) c)

2. copy PC2AmParallel.device from the devs directory to your Devs: (found in workbench:devs/)

3. copy everything from l to your l directory (again workbench show all l)

4. copy the igs.library from the libs directory to your libs: (workbench:libs/)

5. right now ive gone to the liberty of doing this bit for you (configuring it) ive assumed your using a standard parallel laplink cable so copy this file and this one to somewhere, make sure you put them both in the same place the PC.info file is the con for the PC file...


that should be it... now run the program on the PC then double click on the PC file you downloaded from me... and you should get a PC icon appear on your workbench, open it (double click) and you should hopefully see your windows drives there (all labelled C,D etc)

[sir_inferno]

ive assumed your using a standard parallel laplink cable

ummmmmmm, i'm using the official Ami2PC cable, isn't that a bi-directional one?

[Ryu]

well i dont know, it might be.... anyway you can easily change it by editing the PC file....

I dont know I help and all you do is complain :-)

[sir_inferno]

:lol: well this ain't a complaint, this is a question (like all the others  :-) )

am i correct in saying that all the files without .info are icons and so that's why they don't show up on my amiga workbench when i select all files?

[Ryu]

no... all .info files are icons... all other files are not icons.... say you have a file called spoon, then spoon.info would be the icon for spoon... now if you had a program called fork but there was no fork.info then you can safely say fork doesnt have an icon and therefore wont be visible usually. To be able to view fork and any other files with no icons you would have to "show all" like I described in a post above ^^^^. I hope that helps some... im getting towards the limits of my help here :-)

[sir_inferno]

ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa rite, so to view the file correctly, you have to have the info set up correctly, and because windows truncuated the file names, the .info was set up wrong, so the file was set up wrong... :-) is that correct?