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- CHANGES MADE TO THIS DISK SINCE ORIGINAL RELEASE
- last update 16 Jan 1996
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- *Now hard drive installable:
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- INSTALLING ABGTWB3 VOL 1 TO HARD DRIVE
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- * Boot up your hard disk
- * Insert ABGTWB3_VOL1 into DF0: (your internal drive)
- * Double click on a hard drive partition to open it, i.e. "Work" or
- "WorkBench" or whatever you call your HD partitions.
- * Click and hold left mouse button over the ABGTWB3_VOL1 disk icon
- * Keeping the left mouse button held down drag the disk icon to the
- open hard drive window when in place release the left mouse button.
- * The whole ABGTWB3_VOL1 disk will then be copied to your hard drive.
- it will be in its own drawer called "ABGTWB3_VOL1"
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- To Run from HD
- * Open the hard drive partition that contains ABGTWB3_VOL1
- * Double click on th e ABGTWB3_VOL1 drawer icon
- * Double click on "INSTALL PPLIB" This makes sure you have the
- PowerPacker.Library on your Hard disk, you only need to do this once.
- * Double click on "Menus.Guide"
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- * Do not change the name of any file, as it won't work properly.
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- Probs with earlier versions of this guide:
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- * Jon Dickinson reported he tried installing ABGTWB3 on his HD, it worked
- bar being able to view the diagrams, this was because it couldn't find the
- corect path for the pics.
- The other problem Jon had was when he decided to delete ABGTWB3 from his
- HD and just use it from floppy, he found he couldn't delete "Menus.Guide"
- all he got was a "File protected from deletion" error.
- This was intentional on my part, I originally intended this guide to run
- from floppy only and thought I was helping new users by protecting the
- file from accidental deletion.
- After lots of moaning from users about ABGTWB3 not being HD installable I
- have relented, all new versions will be HD installable.
- The protected file problem is caused by the protection flags set in the
- file.
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- Solution: How to unprotect the "Menus.Guide" file
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- * Boot your Hard drive
- * When Workbench has loaded
- * Move mouse to top of the Workbench screen
- * Hold right mouse button down
- * Keeping it held down move the pointer to the "Workbench" menu
- * move the pointer to the "Execute Command..." item
- * When it is selected release the mouse button.
- * A requester will appear
- * Click on the blank line and a tiny text cursor will appear
- * Type the word "Protect" using the keyboard (without the quotes)
- * Followed by a space & then the path of the menus.Guide file,
- e.g. if you had dragged the disk to your "Work:" partition type in
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- Protect Work:ABGTWB3/Menus.Guide
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- if you have it in your Workbench partition type in
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- Protect Workbench:ABGTWB3/Menus.Guide
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- * The last part of the line needs another space and then the letters "rwed"
- this resets the protection bits to normal, examples:
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- Protect Work:ABGTWB3/Menus.Guide rwed
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- if you have it in your Workbench partition type in
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- Protect Workbench:ABGTWB3/Menus.Guide rwed
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- You are then free to delete the file if you want to.
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- To delete the file forever type in "Delete Work:ABGTWB3:/Menus.Guide"
- Change the "Work:" to suit.
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- In a nutshell:
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- 1) Select "Execute Command..." from the "Workbench menu"
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- 2) type in "Protect Work:ABGTWB3/Menus.Guide rwed"
- Change the path to suit.
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- 3) Now type in Delete Work:ABGTWB3:/Menus.Guide" to delete the file.
- Change the path to suit.
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- Needless to say I won't be protecting files in the future! Thanks for
- pointing that out. Obviously this new version isn't protected.
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- Dave Barker found he couldn't print parts of the guide using the menu at the
- top of the screen , this is now fixed, I forgot to assign Printers to the
- Devs drawer.
- Dave also couldn't find the PD utils on the disk, I admit to totally messing
- up here. I barely mentioned how to access them at all. This is all now fixed
- on this new version.
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- When you boot this disk you will asked if you want to look at the utils
- on the disk, if you answer "y" then a mini workbench is loaded, if you
- answer "n" then the tutorial is loaded. It is all explained in detail in
- a new button called "About PD utils" at the bottom of the main menu.
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- Mr Len Brown pointed out to me that I made little or no
- mention that copying this disk using the Workbench Copy program will
- leave a beginner pretty confused BECAUSE THE COPY WON'T WORK!
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- The reason the copy of this disk will not work is that Workbench puts
- a "COPY_OF_" tag the disks name. When this disk is run files are look for on
- a disk called "ABGTWB3_VOL1" and when it can only find
- "COPY_OF_ABGTWB3_VOL1" it knocks out an error and refuses to run.
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- All you need to do is use a PD disk copier like SUPER DUPER COPIER which
- negates this problem or alternatively use the "Rename" option to delete
- the words "COPY_OF_" from the disk name, here we go again, step by step
- time:
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- * See section on how to copy a disk
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- * After you have a copy of this disk, click once with the left mouse button
- on the disk icon to highlight it.
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- * Hold down the right mouse button and select "Rename" from the "Icons"menu
- found at the top of the Workbench screen.
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- * Use the cursor keys to move the cursor to the end of the "COPY_OF_"
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- * Now use the backspace key to delete these words.
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- * Be careful not to leave a space or it still won't work, do not add
- anything else.
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- * Click on OK and Bobs your uncle.
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- In case you are wondering the name of the disk is important to make it Hard
- drive installable. You do come across some disks where the name does not
- matter so don't get confused.
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- Thanks to Len for pointing that out.
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- Steve Bye (16th Jan 1996)
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