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From: petersen@sp66.csrd.uiuc.edu (Paul Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PDC trouble
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Date: 7 Dec 90 22:11:39 GMT
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In <4904.275b9358@cc.nu.oz.au> c8844297@cc.nu.oz.au writes:

>	I am posting this for a friend who is having trouble getting the
>  PDC compiler working on his amiga.
>	The set-up he has is an amiga 500 with external 5.25' disk drive,
>  with 1 Meg RAM.
>
>	The problem is that he can't get the startup-sequence to work for
>  the compiler. He does it the wa the have it set up, but it then asks for
>  him to insert the ENV volume into the drive. This is because of the
>  environment variables that it tries to set up, but everyy thing that he has
>  tried has not succeeded as yet.

This is not really a PDC problem, more a OS1.3 problem.  You need to add
the lines

makedir RAM:ENV
assign ENV: RAM:ENV

to your startup-sequence.

-Paul Petersen

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