On 28 Nov 2004 at 16:46, P Witte wrote: > In connection with the printer project, I wanted to run Proforma, but > couldnt get it to work, so I tried loading it together with the ProWesS > installation I did some years ago, which I know was working. I couldnt get > it to work either. So I downloaded the latest files from your website > (progs.be) and started all over again. No problem installing everything from > flp1_ and modifying my boot file accordingly - but no joy. It still didnt > work. After mucking about for too many hours, I wiped out the installation > and started again. To speed things up I cloned the floppy to a ramdisk, > altered the PWSDIR$ variable and ran the boot program: The machine hangs > during the loader startup, just after installing DATAdesign (ie, that is the > last message on the display) - more or less the same problem I was having > with the installation all along. Ie, it appears I can only run it from a > floppy disk. > > Any suggestions?
Hmmm, pretty strange. What kind of a machine are you running this on? In some distant past, I had trouble getting Prowess to work on the Q60, IIRC I solved that by recompiling it. At that time, I also split the loading of prowess up into two parts;as follows (my prowess lies in a dir called Prowess and win1 which is also dev1_): EX dev1_prowess_prg_loader;"dev1_prowess_startup_1" the dev1_prowess_startup_1 file looks as follows: " %% general ProWesS startup file &prg_setenv PWSDIR +$PWSDIR_prg;$PWSDIR_ext;$PWSDIR_mine %% first executable thing which is needed &rext rext %% load button frame (if doesn't exist) %% rext button_rext "Button Frame" %% load DATAdesign engine %% rext engine_rext DATAdesign.engine %% load PROforma library pf_PROforma $PWSDIR_mine &wait "PROforma DLL" " later in the boot process I do: EX dev1_prowess_prg_loader;"dev1_prowess_startup_2" and that file is: %% load ProWesS library pw_ProWesS $PWSDIR_mine &wait ProWesS %% load some useful executable things %% rext loader %% rext setenv %% rext request %% rext cbutton %% rext mbutton %% rext reader %% rext calc %% rext rconfig %% &wait "ProWesS reader" %% actually set up standard system %% *personal_ldr %% mbutton intro -name "ProWesS - start here" -wait (it loads Prowess and nothing else). I can zip up my prowess dir and send it to you by rpivate mail if you want. (I can check how many bytes that would make...) Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
