| From: | Kolbj�rn Barmen |
| Date: | 1 Feb 2000 at 00:50:49 |
| Subject: | Re: Deficons44 and chip mem |
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kolbj=F8rn_Barmen?= <kolla@nvg.ntnu.no>
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Leon Davidoff wrote:
> I had truely assumed that WbCtrl was an AmigaDOS command. Especially with
> the way everyone here typed about it; obviously familiar with the command. I
> put it in the beginning of my User-Startup and my boot went smoothly (or so I
> thought). Later someone mentioned 'wbctrl q' can be used to show current
> settings.
>
> I tried it in a shell an got a file not found response. I was surprised.
> WbCtrl was not running. I watch my Amiga boot and found the 'file not found'
> message scrolled by during the boot. I guess I expected the system boot to
> stop on an error. Another poor assumption.
You can blame the "failat 21" coimmand in startup-sequence for that.
Comment it out if you, like me, want your startup-sequence to halt on error.
Also it is a smart move to remove a lot of the ">NIL: " in startup-sequence,
especially for commands that by default do not give output unless something
is wrong (assign, mount), others have QUIET flags (delete and copy.)
> I looked around. It wasn't in C:, Tools:, System: or Utilities:. I finally
> found WbCtrl as part of the BootBag1 distribution. Yes there is a doc file
> there and yes I read it. WbCtrl is install and working, though I would be
> happier if 'WbCtrl q' reported FAST for IMT and Icon IMT. It seems to report
> ANY even if FAST was the given argument.
ANY means FAST/CHIP, in that order.
Ofcourse, where there is no more fast to eat from, it will start chewing on
your chip.
> Sometimes it's not as easy as saying RTFM. Which manual? Exactly where?
> Which version? What exactly am I loking for because I read the manual and
> obviously I missed something? The questions could go on.
What did you miss?
Nothing.
If you feel you miss something, it is obviously because you didnt understand
the manual. Why is that? Perhaps you dont have AmigaOS manuals? Well, now
you do, they are on the CD as HTML files.
-- kolla
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