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- Dear Gerald, %H2%Archive Column
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- First of all "Good Luck" and thanks for taking on the task of writing
- the column. I thought you might be interested in my experiences of
- Pipedream in case they are of use to others.
- Its a very good programme and I agree with you that it will become more
- important than FW+ in that it is a very versatile programme and
- also because of its portabillity.
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- I'm operating an upgraded 305 with twin 3.5" and an external 5.25" and
- even with 1MB am having problems with lack of memory so will probably
- go to 2MB. Having used the programme on a Z88 I was impressed by your
- review and wanted to be able to port files to both machines.
- Looking at specifics:
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- %H2%1] RISC OS Printer driver.%H2% If you are trying to load the RISC-OS
- printer driver and also Pipedream on a 310 the error message of
- "Application needs 56K to start up" appears. Its possible to rewrite
- the !run file (see manual page 388) to %H2%decrease%H2% the WimpSlot memory
- allocation by 16k to 472k and 440k as well as removing unused modules.
- Copy your Risc OS printer driver onto your working Pipedream disc and
- then you can install both !Pipedream %H2%and%H2% !PrinterDM on the icon bar.
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- %H2%2] Z88 use %H2%The Z88 must have "PClink" running and the lead
- connected for the file transfer to work, otherwise an error message
- appears and the Arc hangs. The file transfer to and from the Z88 works
- very well but there are problems with the Z88 itself. I'm on my second
- which has just failed after the batteries got low then it's unable to
- restart or accept keyboard input or switch off. There is a problem with
- early machines on the keyboard membrane. Insist on the machine being
- fixed as some dealers will exchange computers to get the machine
- working so that the same fault will reappear later when the machine is
- out of warranty!
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- %H2%3] File Names %H2% On saving a file with V3.04R for the first time, if
- you get a long filenamepath wrong the computer will show "Bad filename"
- and hang. This is always after an hour or mores work and I havn't found
- a way to resave the file! Colton have fixed this on later versions
- but its still better to give the file a short simple name such as
- "Archive" not using the filenamepath. This way you are prompted to drag
- the icon into the directory. You don't get that wrong or at least its
- easier to correct. %H2%Beware%H2% that you can allocate a name to a file i.e
- "Christmas_let", it will be named but if you try and save it by icon
- dragging the computer throws a wobbly because the name is too %H2%long.
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- %H2%4] Disc Space %H2% The use of fonts and printer drivers can be made
- quicker and need less disc swops if the maximum useful infomation is
- placed on the working disc. I have:
- Put !Fonts and !System on the working disk
- Put !PrinterDM " (see above)
- Removed !Chars & PD123 to a documents file
- Deleted most of the information in the !pipedream.!help
- file replacing it with a message that it can be found on
- the document disc.
- Removed Juki, FX80 and laser pipedream printer drivers
- replacing them with Citizen120
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- This gives about 30k free on the working disc for more fonts.
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- %H2%5] Citizen 120 D%H2% I've attached a driver for this machine to add to
- your collection plus Cit_readme documentation. They are good little
- machines with an IBM mode as well so good value for a first printer.
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- If you decide to do a special Pipedream shareware I'm interested as I
- am in any extra Fonts...
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- Besters, and thank you for your hard work.
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- Ned
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