| From: | tesla |
| Date: | 3 May 2000 at 16:31:22 |
| Subject: | Re: |
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Hutchison <p.j.hutchison@hud.ac.uk>
To: <amigaOS3_5@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:18 AM
Subject: RE: [amigaOS3_5]
> Hello everybody:
>
> >I have a A3000T, which is having problems with keeping up with the
> >date/time/year. It used to do fine under 2.04, but since i've installed
> 3.5,
> >(Yes, I bought it:) ) I haven't been able to get the date to load
properly.
> >Does anyone have any ideas? I don't know which folder it should be in? I
> >have it presently in the prefs folder, which doesn't seem to be working.
>
> The Time prefs should be in sys:prefs, IPrefs does all the work including
> getting the time from the Battery-backed clock and setting the time
> (SetClock
> used to do this)
>
> >BTW, the bios battery has just been replaced, so I know this isn't the
> >problem.
>
> Maybe that when you set the time, you haven`t left the machine on for long
> enough for the date/time to stay!
>
> >BTW, I have a suggestion/beef about the way 3.1/3.5 is distributed. What
do
> >people do that don't have a copy of 3.1 installed first. I believe that
> >2.04, for instance, will not install a cd rom drive, natively. In this
> case,
> >if i'm right, do they have to buy a disk-based version of 3.1, THEN buy
> the
> >cd rom of 3.5?
>
> No they should have got the CD software with their CDROM! There are free
> CDFS`
> about such as AmiCDFS and AmiCDROM and commercial such as AsimCDFS!
> Gene
> That is all fine and good, but if I had just bought the machine, or wasn't
aware of these choices,
(Which I wasn't), then I would have been up the proverbial creek, huh? :) It
would have been nice
if Amiga, in their wisdom, had provided a disk-based copy of various
programs like this, for the
Newbies or inexperienced. (I fall in the latter.)
>
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