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TUTOR DOC v1.1
project by Jeff Petermann (PLINK ID Hemonculus)
151 Bunker Hill Rd
Fayetteville NC 28314
If you have any comments, please feel free to address them to me via
either of the above methods.
PURPOSE:
Our user group has quite a few members that are either new to the Amiga
or to computers in general. My purpose was to suppliment the various texts
available with an interactive environment where one could do a bit of
experimentation and become more familiar with using the CLI.
During my early learning phase, I tended to find the manuals I had to be
somewhat cryptic, but I was pretty computer illiterate. Perhaps this will
help to clear up a few minor points.
I did not intend for this to be taken as gospel or to replace a definitive
work on the subject and in cases where the user finds discrepincies between
his manual and these tutorials, he/she would probably be well advised to go
with the manual. After all, the authors of those manuals got paid to have
the right answers.
I have proofread these texts until I'm blurry-eyed and have imposed them
on others in the group for smoke-testing. I hope we've gotten ALL the typos
and ambiguous sections under control.
CREDITS, DISCLAIMERS, ETC...
Although there are more books on the subject, "The AmigaDOS Manual, 2d Ed"
copyright 1987, Bantam Books has been my standard "bible". In areas that I
have been purposefully brief, a much more complete description of the
command and it's doings can be found therein. And where I have placed this
work in the public domain, this in no way negates their copyrights.
Included in this package are the utilities 'Projector' and 'Reader'. The
Projector is made available from the Right Answers Group and is for use in
viewing films generated with the Director. Reader was written by Ken Grocke
and is by far the best text reading program that this humble fellow has
seen. I obtained it from a BBS in the Atlanta, GA area with no supporting
documentation. It's incredibly easy to use and versatile and doesn't really
require instructions, but I can only hope that by having included it in this
package, I'm not incurring the wrath of the author. Please DO NOT include
it in any commercial work without HIS written consent!
Also included as the 'Projector' utility from the 'Director' by the
Right Answers Group. It is freely distributable and is used for viewing the
'.film' files produced.
Please do not upload this arc or any part thereof to a BBS that will
claim ownership of it once placed in their hands.
Until/unless I hear differently, you are encouraged to make this
tutorial available to anyone you think might be able to use it. This
distribution must be done free of charge. The only stipulation being that
it be distributed intact and unchanged.
The Tutor only covers commands upto 1.2. I intend to do another file
that will cover the 1.3 commands once 1.3 is released. It will not include
any of these files, assuming that it will be used as a support file only.
And lastly, the included batchfile will install everything for you. But
it WILL make drastic changes to the disk that it's installed on. These
changes are primarily to make room for the text files and sundry things
required (throwing away all the non-generic printer drivers, the clock,
demos(dir), etc). This won't ruin the disk, but it does qualify as a
drastic change. It was meant to be used with a 1.2 Workbench (Don't know
about 1.1 and I don't care and 1.3 isn't out yet). Whatever else you do,
INSTALL IT ON A BACK-UP COPY!!!!!
No one that has used Tutor has reported any crashes, gurus, or
the suchlike. I can't imagine any, but should you find something (?!?!),
please let me know so it can be remedied. But even so, you'll be using it
at your own risk.
INSTALLATION OF TUTOR
It has occurred to me that anyone who can download this file, unarc it,
and follow these instructions...probably doesn't need it. But if you're
setting this up for a friend or other members of your group...
I tried to make this as painless as possible. Here's what you do:
(the easiest way is to use an external drive, but if you only have one..)
1.
COPY A STANDARD 1.2 WORKBENCH!!!
2. Rename the copy "Tutor", if you forget the batchfile will do it for you.
If you rely on the batchfile to do your renaming, just cancel the
requestor that asks you to insert "Tutor" in any drive.
The batchfile will ask for the drive number if it can't find "Tutor:".
The limitations are: enter the NUMBER ONLY
(ie: just 1 NOT df1) and if you have more externals than df2:,
df2: is as high as I set it up to do.
3. Copy the Tutor.arc file to ram:,
cd to ram:
, and unarc it
(this shouldn't be a problem for the 512k's out there, but to be
honest, I don't know about 256k's, but I doubt it?!?)
4. Reboot using your copy [single drive] or you can leave it in an
external drive. If you elect to reboot, copy the files from ram: to a
disk BEFORE you do, they won't wait there for you.
5. If the files aren't still in ram: (you rebooted), put them there and
CD back to ram:.
6.
Execute
the batchfile "
[ram:]Tutor_x.me
"
7. Wait for the gronking to stop (ya, I've got a 1000, but I love it)
8. Reboot using Tutor:
(suggestion: If you're one of the lucky ones that has a hard drive, don't
bother putting this on it, you'll just be taking up space that could be
used for something with a longer shelf life. Frankly, if you still need
this after a few weeks you either didn't pay any attention or haven't been
playing around enough...and it's most certainly the later!)
The batchfile will look for a VD0:c or a RAM:c, but if they're not
found, it will create a small 'C' directory in RAM to speed things up. This
directory will be removed upon completion. I opted NOT to clean up the rest
of the files from RAM.
That's all there is to it. Should you have any trouble getting it to
install, send me a COPY of a 1.2 WB (please no originals, 1.1's, or beta 1.3's)
and I'll install it and send it back. I would appreciate the 50 cents return
postage. This is necessary since I can't distribute a complete WB without
C-A's permission.
Once again, you're comments are welcome! Best of luck.
Jeff
Improvements:
v1.1:
Included the system-configuration file I forgot in the first release.
Without it, it wouldn't work. And to any one who might wonder how safe it
is to download things from PLINK, I can only say that Harv there looks at
the stuff and HE brought my ignorence to my attention. Thanks HARV!