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From: Michael Cowgill <mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk>
To: acornet@lists.barnet.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Acornet 0.20 - a few suggestions
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In message <6dfbdbc47%esuvf@dial1221.dialup.warwick.ac.uk> you wrote:
> In message <ef397bc47%mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk>
> Michael Cowgill <mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Further to my previous comments:
> >
> > !NewsDir is not Filer_Booting on my system, suggesting that the
> > BootApps program is broken in some way - I've tried switching trace
> > on - the results are attached:
>
> This is relatively bad news. Acornet boots Resources.*, !newsdir then
> Apps.*.
>
> It doesn't appear to be getting out of resources, as the last entry
> in the log you supplied (Resources.!WebHelper) does not have a 'Done'
> line, and I can't see what's different about WebHelper that should
> cause a problem with it.
>
> Ah, I just read your other message. It's stopping at webhelper
> because of the error message you mentioned. I totally fail to see
> any reference to !WebHelper.!Help anywhere inside of Acornet, so I
> can't see why it should be trying to run that.
>
> Does it do this when run from a clean boot?
> (ie. switch the computer on with shift help down, then (holding
> control all the time), !Acornet and doubleclick on it. Then release
> control.
I tried this shortly after I read your message - Acornet worked fine :) After a
lot of fiddling about this morning I've discovered that keeping Acornet inside
a directory called "Internet" is what is causing the trouble. God knows why
this is so, but renaming the directory cured the problem.
--
Bye. (8-)#
Michael Cowgill - mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk
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