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Last Minute Addendums to Amiga.DOC
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On a 512k Amiga you will sometimes find that Icon programs report an
insufficient memory in startup code. There are two cures for this:
1) Make certain that you have *nothing* in the ram disk.
Also, make certain that you are not multi-tasking - for example,
leaving a copy of the editor you are using running.
2) The startup-code consumes a certain amount of memory. You can
sometimes run programs using
1> Iconx Prog
That would not run as simply
1> Prog
3) If both of these options fail to work, then you need to
buy, borrow, or steal more memory.
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STACK
It is important to allow sufficient stack - at least 20000, and,
for some applications, more.
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MAXMEM
On a 512k amiga, you may have trouble loading the IEEE library.
One solution to this is to set MAXMEM= to a sufficiently small
amount to allow the program to run and the IEEE library to be
loaded. This will not happen with more memory.
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Startup-scripts:
Here is a sample startup-script that does assigns and such for you.
It assumes that you have located the four files, Icont, Iconx, ITran
and ILink in SYS:IconV6/Bin, and the header file ixhdr in SYS:IconV6/sysexe.
________________++++++++++ CUT HERE +++++++++++++++=================_____________
Echo ""
Echo "Hello!"
Echo " Welcome to AMIGA ICON, V6.001"
Echo ""
Assign ICONT: IconV6/bin
Assign ITRAN: IconV6/bin
Assign ILINK: IconV6/bin
Assign ICONX: IconV6/bin
Assign HEAD: IconV6/sysexe
Set UFILES=RAM:
Set MAXMEM=300
Set IPATH=SYS:!SYS:ICONV6!SYS:ICONV6/Examples
Path add IconV6/bin
Stack 20000
Stack
cd IconV6
Echo "Current directory = SYS:IconV6"
Echo ""
Prompt "Icon-%N! "