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- From: singh@wwa.com (singh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: More dataypes problems
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 22:14:33 GMT
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- In article <4c7ajv$g5c@uwm.edu>, integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I
- Rosenberg) wrote:
-
- > I've been trying for a really long time to get my datatypes to work, and I
- > can't figure it out for the life of me. I have d/l'ed some datatypes from
- > aminet and insstalled them like this.
- >
- > I have a SYS:devs/datatypes directory, containing:
- >
- > [4][Workbench:Devs/DataTypes] ls
- > AmigaGuide FTXT JFIF WAVE
- > BMP GIF VOC exe
- >
- >
- > then I have a sys:classes/datatypes directory, looks like this:
- >
- > [4][Workbench:Classes/DataTypes] ls
- > VOC_DT.Doc bmp.datatype text.datatype
- > ZGIFDatatype.Doc exe.datatype voc.datatype
- > amigaguide.datatype gif.datatype wav.datatype
- > ascii.datatype jfif.datatype
- >
- >
- > I also have a line in my startup-sequence:
- >
- > C:AddDatatypes REFRESH QUIET
- >
- >
- >
- > Does this look like everything is set up correctly? That is the extent of my
- > set-up.. should datatypes work now? I've never gotten them to work in any
- > program.. I'm trying to get IBrowse to have inlined gifs, or MultiView, or
- > ANYTHING, nothing wants to work for me. I can't figure it out. Any ideas?
- >
- > Thanks in advance..
- >
- > -Noah Rosenberg
- >
- >
- > --
- > CONTROL INTEGRITY LUST
- > in'T@-gr@l http://www.uwm.edu/~integral
- > "Send money or I'll die."
- > -integral@csd.uwm.edu
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > CONTROL INTEGRITY LUST
- > in'T@-gr@l http://www.uwm.edu/~integral
- > "Send money or I'll die."
- > -integral@csd.uwm.edu
-
- Where in the startup-sequence do you have that line? I had problems with
- datatypes and corrected it by putting adddatatypes refresh further down.
- Also check the spelling you used, a common mistake is the type:
- addatatypes instead of "adddatatypes."
-
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