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HOW TO INSTALL THE AMIGADOS C MANUAL
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Before you can use the AmigaDOS C Manual from the floppy disks
you have to prepare your system. (If you want to install the
manual on your hard disk, which is recommended if you have one,
simply follow the instructions in document "InstallHD.doc".)
When the official Amiga C Encyclopedia V4.0 is released I will
of course include an "installation" utility which does
everything for you, but for the moment you sadly have to do it
yourself. However, it is not difficult and should not take more
than five minutes to do. There are only two things you have to
do:
1. When AmigaGuide is trying to access different parts of the
manual it uses some "logical devices" which must be created in
your start-up sequence when the computer is started. The
advantage with these "logical devices" is that you actually can
place the different parts of the manual wherever you like -
even on different partition of the hard disk if necessary. You
then only have to alter the "logical devices" and AmigaGuide
will find all files!
If you have not altered the files on the disks you should
include the following lines in the start-up sequence (in the
file "S:User-Startup").
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Assign ACE_ACE: AmigaDOS1:ACE
Assign ACE_Dos: AmigaDOS1:
Assign ACE_DosAmigaDOS: AmigaDOS1:AmigaDOS
Assign ACE_DosIntroduction: AmigaDOS1:Introduction
Assign ACE_DosFiles: AmigaDOS1:Files
Assign ACE_DosFileFunctions: AmigaDOS1:FileFunctions
Assign ACE_DosBufferedIO: AmigaDOS2:BufferedIO
Assign ACE_DosParsingCL: AmigaDOS2:ParsingCommandLine
Assign ACE_DosHandlers: AmigaDOS3:Handlers
Assign ACE_DosAdvancedRoutines: AmigaDOS3:AdvancedRoutines
Assign ACE_DosMiscellaneous: AmigaDOS3:Miscellaneous
Assign ACE_DosLibrary: AmigaDOS4:AmigaDOSLibrary
Assign ACE_Utilities: SYS:Utilities
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If you have moved the chapters (drawers) to other parts of the
disks you should of course alter the assignments so they fit
your system.
2. With AmigaGuide you can not only freely move between
different text parts, you can also look at pictures, run
examples and edit the source codes. These special features
are actually not done by AmigaGuide itself, but instead by
external programs which are started by AmigaGuide. For the
moment AmigaGuide only knows about two external programs -
"ACEDisplay" and "ACEEditor".
These "programs" do actually not exist! What you should do is
to tell AmigaDOS which programs that AmigaDOS actually should
start when the above mentioned programs are called. You do this
with the help of the Shell command "Alias".
If you want to use the standard "Display" program (is included
on your system disk in the "utilities" drawer) as a picture
viewer you should include the following line in the start-up
sequence (in the file "S:User-Startup"):
Alias ACEDisplay Display
Whenever AmigaGuide is trying to display a picture it will
call the program "ACEDisplay" (which does not exist), and
AmigaDOS will notice this and redirect the call to "Display"
which is started instead.
You should do the same thing with the "ACEEditor" command, so
your favourite editor is started whenever a document should be
edited.
If you want to use the standard editor "Ed" (is also included
on your system disk in the "utilities" drawer) you should
include the following line in the start-up sequence (in the file
"S:User-Startup"):
Alias ACEEditor Ed
However, if you have the SAS/C Compiler you probably want to
use the more advanced editor "SE". You then simply replace the
line above with this line:
Alias ACEEditor SE
However, if you have the Lattice C Compiler you probably want
to use the "LSE" editor instead, and you should then include
this line:
Alias ACEEditor LSE
This was all you had to do. Simply restart your computer (so
the new lines in the "User-Startup" file are executed) and you
can start to use the AmigaDOS C Manual, and have fun!!!
Happy Programming!
Anders Bjerin