Hi,

I am having some problem installing REBOL/View on the Amiga.

First, I had problems with the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME variables,
which seems to be ignored by the new /View version, but I came around
this problem in some way.

The problem is that after every reboot, Rebol wants to install itself
again and again, and now when I tried this time, I got an even more weird
problem (I had SnoopDOS running to trace the problem the third time I tried
to install):

Before starting to install, I removed the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME files
from env: and envarc: (which should remove all trace of older versions ?)

I extracted the view011.lha archive to Disk-01:rebview/
(lha x -F view011.lha Disk-01:rebview/)

and started the installation from workbench. SnoopDOS log:

Count Process Name       Action     Target Name                 Options Res.
----- ------------       ------     -----------                 ------- ----
1     WBL                ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         
2     WBL                Load       rebol                               OK  
3     WBL                ChangeDir  SYS:                                    
4     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
5     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
6     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
7     rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         
8     rebol              Open       CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write   OK  
9     KingCON DOS-proces Open       ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info    Read    Fail
10    rebol              Open       *                           Read    OK  
11    rebol              Open       *                           Read    OK  
12    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         
13    rebol              Open       rebol.info                  Read    OK  
14    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         
15    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         
16    rebol              Open       rebol.info                  Read    OK  
17    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:rebview                         


After accepting the licence agreement, I entered /Work/Programming/REBOL/ as
the installation directory (only "create above.." checked, even if I had that
directory before), and then "Install"

Rebol/View pops up "Can not install: Failed to create binary file:
/Work/Programming/REBOL/rebol

SnoopDOS log:

Count Process Name       Action     Target Name                 Options Res.
----- ------------       ------     -----------                 ------- ----
26    rebol              Open       Disk-01:rebview             Read    Fail

ok.. seems like REBOL wanted to read the rebview directory as a file.. so I
move out the contents of the rebview directory to the root directory of the
Disk-01 partition and retry the installation:

Another try. SnoopDOS log after starting the installation again:

Count Process Name       Action     Target Name                 Options Res.
----- ------------       ------     -----------                 ------- ----
1     WBL                ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                
2     WBL                Load       rebol                               OK  
3     WBL                ChangeDir  SYS:                                    
4     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
5     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
6     WBL                LockScreen Workbench                           OK  
7     rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                
8     rebol              Open       CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write   OK  
9     KingCON DOS-proces Open       ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info    Read    Fail
10    rebol              Open       *                           Read    OK  
11    rebol              Open       *                           Read    OK  
12    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                
13    rebol              Open       rebol.info                  Read    OK  
14    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                
15    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                
16    rebol              Open       rebol.info                  Read    OK  
17    rebol              ChangeDir  Disk-01:                                

"Accept" again, and the same installation directory. Rebol says "installation
succeeded.". SnoopDOS log:

Count Process Name       Action     Target Name                 Options Res.
----- ------------       ------     -----------                 ------- ----
1     rebol              Open       Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Write   OK  
2     rebol              Open       Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Read    OK  
3     rebol              Open       ram:.rebol                  Write   OK  
4     rebol              Open       ram:.rebol                  Read    OK  
5     rebol              Open       ram:.rebol                  Read    OK  
6     rebol              Open       ram:.rebol                  Read    OK  

Why.. is a file ".rebol" written on the RAM disk ?

File contents:

; This file is for REBOL configuration information.  DO NOT EDIT
view-install-path %/Work/Programming/REBOL/ 
View 1.0.0.1.1 

And, when I check the "rebol" file in Work:Programming/REBOL, I notice this is
a text file that contains (on a single 193 character line):

setup.htmlrebol.inforebollicense.htmlicons/feedback.r.infofeedback.rrebview/movie/vs/.filelistdocs.sun.com/piccs/Mypics.infoMypics/MailZIP.infoMailZIP/Amiga-Archive.infoAmiga-Archive/disk.info

which is the contents of my Disk-01 partition's root directory.

/PeO

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