Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!johns
From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Opus and line 31 meta.sys in assign.sys
Message-ID: <273AC101.9323@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 9 Nov 90 14:45:21 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.201123.7844@resrch.molienergy.bc.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 29


In article <1990Nov8.201123.7844@resrch.molienergy.bc.ca> martins@resrch.molienergy.bc.ca (Martin Siebert) writes:
>Hai, recently I pulled Opus2.2 of the archive server. Installed it
>as desribed. Everything works fine, except when I want to save or print
>the graphs. The error I get is :
>
>            Error opening Meta File Work Station
>            makesure GEMSYS disk is in place.
>
>Well here I am lost. My assign.sys file does include line 31
>
>            31 meta.sys    ; Meta File

	Try changing that to:

	31r meta.sys    ; Meta File
	  ^
	  this "r" seems to be important
>[...]

	I wrote a program that wrote out metafiles, and I needed put the
magic letter there.  But I notice that some programs (Pagestream 1.8) do
not need it there.  How do they do it?  My program crashes big time if I
leave it this way and try to write something out to a metafile.

-- 
John Schmitt
johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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