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PENNYWISE INSTALLATION
*** IMPORTANT - READ FOOTNOTE ABOUT THE t: DIRECTORY *****
First, if you are serious about using PENNYWISE, make a backup of
the distrinbution disk.
PENNYWISE allows you to maintain your data in any directory, by
any file name. This simplifies installation somewhat. If you are
using
STANDARD AMIGA DISK DRIVES, the disk containing
PENNYWISE and the HELP directory must be named
'PENNYWISE'. Failing that, you must ASSIGN (from the CLI)
'PENNYWISE:' to the disk where the HELP directory resides.
Otherwise PENNYWISE will not find the HELP files!
HARD DISK OWNERS should create a directory of a suitable name,
and place 'PENNYWISE' and the HELP directory in it. You must
then ASSIGN 'PENNYWISE:' to that directory!
Assuming you have created a directory called 'PW' on your
HARD DRIVE 'DH0:' for this purpose, the best place to make
the assignment is in the Startup-sequence. Somewhere after
the hard-disk is MOUNTED place the following in the startup-
sequence text file:
ASSIGN PENNYWISE: DH0:PW
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GAINING MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE (SPEED):
MICRO FLOPPY DISK USERS are advised to increase the
buffer size of the drive where the PENNYWISE data will be
maintained. I found that a buffer size of 40 works well.
Once again, the startup sequence is the best place to do this.
If the data disk is kept in DF1: you should add
ADDBUFFERS DF1: 40
to the startup-sequence.
Alternatively, and only if you have a MEGABYTE or more of
memory and Workbench 1.3, you might consider attaching
installing 'RAD:' and keeping your data directory in it.(don't
forget to copy the data back to disk before switching the
computer off)
HARD DRIVE USERS will be able to take advantage of a special
version of PENNYWISE (only available to shareware subscribers)
which maintains its index files on disk.This approach is impractical
(too slow) with FLOPPYS.
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FOOTNOTE:
The Report Generator in PW needs the assignment to a directory t:
for its temporary files. Check your workbench STARTUP-SEQUENCE for a
statement like:
ASSIGN T: SYS:T
If it is not there you must ensure a suitable assignment is made. I
like to
ASSIGN T: RAM:
althought the choice is largely yours. If you don't understand all this
STARTUP-SEQUENCE stuff, make the effort!
A good starting point would be MEGADISK or the AMIGADOS manual.
However, here are the steps to satisfy PENNYWISE's hunger for a T: assignment.
You need a text editor or word-processor than can output simple text-files.
1) Load & run the Text editor:
2) Activate the Text editors 'OPEN' or 'LOAD' option.
3) The file to load is 'S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE'
4) If all is well you'll be looking at the startup-sequence instructions.
5) Go through the instructions and look for
ASSIGN T: xxxxx
where 'xxxxx' might be 'DF0:t' or 'SYS:T'
6) If the ASSIGN T: does not exist somewhere within the the text
(and before the 'ENDCLI' that appears at the end of the start
up sequence') enter a new line
ASSIGN T: RAM:
7) Now re-save "s:STARTUP-SEQUENCE"