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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JUNE 1995 LIMA NEWSLETTER
HOW TO INSTALL FUNNELWEB ON A HARD DRIVE
by Charles Good
Lima Ohio User Group
This article assumes you are installing Funnelweb on SCSI hard
drive #1. The device name is SCS1 (that's a "one"). If you are
installing on a hard drive controlled by a Myarc HFDC card substitute
the letters "HDS" or "WDS" each time "SCS" is used in this article.
You need to put all the Funnelweb files you plan to put on your
hard drive on a floppy disk, configure these files on disk, and then
upload them to your hard drive. Funnelweb only recognizes a directory
named "FWB", so from MDOS on the Geneve and create this directory from
the root directory by entering "MD FWB". The Geneve should respond
with "Done".
The important files to configure are FW, CF, CG, and to a lesser
extent LOAD. Once properly set up and uploaded to your hard drive,
not only will Funnelweb operate properly, but you can reconfigure at
any time from the hard drive by running Funnelweb's configuration
program.
Start Funnelweb from disk. One way is to use EXEC and type "EXEC
A:FW". Run Funnelweb's Configure and under the LOADING heading press
H for hard disk path until WDS.FWB is displayed. Press Back (Fctn/8).
Now select DEVICES and press "W" to configure a workfile name. This
should be the subdirectory where most of your text files will be
stored when you use Funnelweb's word processor. I suggest entering
"SCS1.TEXT." for the workfile name. Press Back (Fctn/8). Now save
your configuration to SYSCON, then press Back again and INSTALL this
hard disk path to files FW and LOAD. Then QUIT Configure and go back
to a Funnelweb central menu.
Start Disk Review and bring up a directory of the disk containing
your Funnelweb files. Move the cursor next to file FW and press I
(for inspect). Select 2 File Search. Select ASCII and search for the
string WDS1.FWB. Press 2 to edit and change this to "SCS1.FWB.".
Press CTRL/W and then CTRL/A to write this change back to disk. Then
press Back a few times to abandon the search. Move the cursor next to
the file LOAD, press I, and in a similar manner change WDS1.FWB. to
"SCS1.FWB.". Press Back a few times to abandon the search and return
to the disk directory listing.
Now move the cursor next to file CG and press I. Select 2 file
search and search for the ascii string DSK1.S which should be at the
very end of a sector. Press 2 to edit this sector and change this to
SCS1.F and then move the cursor in the ascii field to the character
immediately in front of the "S" that you just typed. Press Ctrl/H to
go to the hex display and change this byte to 0F. Now go back to
ascii by pressing Ctrl/A and move to the next sector by pressing
Ctrl/N, and you will see YSCON at the beginning of the sector. Put
the cursor over the Y and type WB.SYSCON and save this change with
Ctrl/W followed by Ctrl/A. What you just did was change the string
DSK1.SYSCON, which was spread over two sectors, to the string
SCS1.FWB.SYSCON and you also altered the length byte at the beginning
of the string to reflect the new longer length of the string.
Press Back a few times and again search file CG, this time for
"DSK1.FW" which you should type over with "SCS1.FWB.FW". Now move to
the space immediately before the first S and press Ctrl/H to switch to
hex. Type "0B" here to change the length byte to the new longer
length and write these changes to disk with Ctrl/W and then Ctrl/A.
In a similar manner search file CG for "DSK1.LOAD" and change
this to SCS1.FWB.LOAD and change the length byte immediately in front
of the first S to "0D". Now search for "DSK1.UL" and type over this
with "SCS1.FWB.UL". Move the cursor to the space in front of the
first S, do Ctrl/H for hex and change the length byte to "0B". Write
these changes to disk with Ctrl/W and then Ctrl/A.
Now press Back a few times to the Disk Review directory and move
the cursor to file CF. Press I and search this file for the string
"WDS.FWB.", which should be changed to "SCS1.FWB." and written back to
disk.
You are almost done. Exit Funnelweb and go to MDOS. Copy all
the files on the modified Funnelweb disk to the FWB direcotory. If
the disk is in the A drive and your hard drive is drive H then you can
type "A:" and enter, then "COPY * SCS1.FWB." and enter will copy the
files.
Funnelweb should now run properly from your hard drive. You can
boot it any time from extended basic, or directly from MDOS using
EXEC. I have a one line batch file called FWBAT that does this. The
one line in the file is "H:EXEC H:\FWB\FW". You can also from your
hard drive within Funnelweb successfully run Funnelweb's CONFIGURE,
which is the result of all the above changes to CF and CG.
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