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LOGiSTiX on the AMIGA
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"TRICKS & HINTS"
The following points will help you make full and effective
use of your LOGiSTiX program on the AMIGA. Please help us to
help you by spending a few moments reading these useful
points.
- IMPORTANT: AMIGADOS VERSION 1.1
Version 1.1 of AmigaDOS has a bug which can cause some
very unpleasant problems when LOGiSTiX runs out of
memory. We suggest you exercise care when using LOGiSTiX
near the full memory capacity of the AMIGA, as certain of
the memory handling functions have unpredictable side
effects. In particular we suggest you save your work
regularily so that you know your data is constantly
secure. This is important if you intend using graphics,
as some graphs can be very memory hungry.
Because of this bug the example file CASHFLOW.LGX should
ONLY to be used with systems having 1M byte of memory or
more. It will not work with a 512K byte AMIGA (in fact it
will crash the system. Similarly, the GRAPHS.LGX file
will not work when LOGiSTiX has been run from the
WorkBench. It will, however, work when run from the CLI.
Also when drawing graphs, please note that if you drag
and/or size the graph window, this will effect the amount
of memory required. In particular if you size the window
larger, you may find it will not accept your request, but
instead it will draw the graph using the same position
and size. The reason is that there is not enough
contiguous memory for the larger graphics screen, and so
it draws it using the old window location, without
issuing the INSUFFICIENT MEMORY message.
There is another bug in version 1.1 of AmigaDOS which
under certain conditions will "hang" the AMIGA when any
of /Utilities Directory, Rename, Erase or Copy are
selected when running LOGiSTiX from the CLI. We suggest
you save any work before trying out these options.
All the above problems are solved by using version 1.2 of
AmigaDOS.
- When using a single drive AMIGA, we suggest you set the
/Utilities Prefix (/UP) to df0: . This will allow you to
swap disks and load example files from the Examples Disk
using the single disk drive. Another helpful hint is to
enter /Load Logistix (/LL) and then replace the Program
Disk with the disk containing the data to be loaded (ie
the Examples Disk). When the data has been read in, be
sure to replace the Program Disk in the drive.
- The current version of the User Documentation includes
references to the HOME and END keys which are not
available on the AMIGA keyboard. We suggest you use the
Goto option (=) and address the cell directly (eg =a1 for
HOME). The worksheet limits are shown in /Utilities
Status (/US). Another method is to assign the HOME and
END keys to one of the function keys 5,6,7 or 8 by using
the /Auto facility, such us:
/AE{F8}Home{RET}>HOM{RET}
where {F8} is function key 8 and {RET} is the return
key).
- When using a 512K AMIGA system, we recommend that you run
LOGiSTiX from the CLI instead of from the WorkBench. This
will allow you to use an extra 30K bytes of memory for
your worksheet models, which will be particularly useful
when drawing graphs. To do this place the LOGiSTiX
Program Disk in the main floppy disk drive and press the
CTRL-A-A keys at the same time. (The AMIGA A keys are
located at either side of the space bar and are labeled
with a red capital A). This will load the CLI enabling
you to run LOGiSTiX by entering LGX at the 1> prompt.
- A useful hint: If you have resized or moved the graphics
window, then this will become the active window. Any
keystrokes entered will be sent to this graphics window
and will not be "heard" by the worksheet part of
LOGiSTiX. To change this move the mouse pointer to a
postion on the screen which is outside of the graph
window and click once with the left mouse button. This
will then make LOGiSTiX "listen" to you.
- LOGiSTiX is most effectively used in a 1M byte or greater
memory AMIGA system. This will allow use of the non
overlayed version of LOGiSTiX (which results in better
speed performance), and also allows full use of the
AMIGA's multi-tasking capability.
We hope you will enjoy using LOGiSTiX on the AMIGA. Any
comments, suggestions, criticisms etc., will be
gratefullly received.
GRAFOX LTD
Oxford, England