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- COMMON PROBLEMS
- (Updated 12/24/93)
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- CD-ROM DRIVER SOFTWARE
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- I have tested a number of different CD-ROM driver packages and have found
- problems with most of them except for the Xetec driver, the Z3-Fastlane
- driver, and the very latest ASIMware Innovations driver. Usually the
- problems involve opening or reading files that have international charac-
- ters in their names, or have embedded semicolon characters. However don't
- panic, this typically involves only a couple dozen files out of the 40,000+
- files on this CD-ROM.
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- To see if your driver is capable of correctly reading every file on this
- CD-ROM, run the following test, which may take between 2 and 24 hours
- depending upon what software you are using, the speed of your drive, what
- controller card you have, what CD-ROM drive you have, etc, etc. Be sure
- that you have either run the CD startup sequence as described in
- README-FIRST or else have arranged for brik to be in your path and for
- ixemul.library to be found in your LIBS: directory.
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- cd FreshFish-Dec93:
- stack 100000
- brik -Cb <CrcList or brik -Cb <crclist >ram:logfile
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- The test should run with no output to either the screen or the logfile, as
- the case may be. If brik fails to find or correctly read any file on the
- CD-ROM, it will generate a line of output giving the file name and an
- appropriate error message. If you do get errors, I suggest sending the
- list of files that have problems to the supplier of your CD-ROM software,
- and inquire about an update.
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- REPORTING PROBLEMS
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- If you have problems running some program on this disk, or find bugs in a
- program, you should report these problems to the author of the program, not
- to me. I likely will not be able to help you and dealing with such problem
- reports takes time away from other projects, like getting the next disk
- out. Also, I generally have no more additional contact information for
- authors than what is already provided on the CD-ROM, so please don't send
- reports to me asking me to "pass them on" to the author.
-
- About the only exception to this is problems with the GNU utilities.
- Problems that appear to be Amiga specific should be reported to me. Other
- problems, particularly if you can duplicate them on a UNIX system running
- the same version of the GNU software without any Amiga specific patches,
- should be reported to the FSF.
-
- In summary, please only report problems to me when it seems like I'm the
- most obvious person to deal with them. The address for reporting problems
- to me is:
-
- Amiga Library Services
- 610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18
- Chandler, AZ 85224-3687
- U.S.A.
-
- You can also FAX them to me at (602) 917-0917.
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- READING THIS CD-ROM ON OTHER SYSTEMS
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- I have had mixed reports of success or problems with attempting to read
- this CD-ROM on other systems, such as UNIX systems or systems running
- MS-DOS. If you are using such systems and can try to read this CD-ROM on
- them, I would be interested in receiving back reports of your results.
-
- Note that positive reports like "everything was fine" are just as important
- as negative reports like "nothing worked". Otherwise the only time I hear
- about the results is when people have problems. The best way to report
- these results is to send me a FAX, describing your hardware and software
- configuration, any problems you encountered, and what if anything, you were
- able to do to overcome the problems. Thanks!
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