Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.audio:691 comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:1104 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: PutTrax and BrunoMbox (mild warning) Message-ID: <1991May7.151955.8796@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 7 May 91 15:19:55 GMT References: <1991Apr20.231112.5484@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr29.220510.3875@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <6187@trantor.harris-atd.com> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 49 In article <6187@trantor.harris-atd.com> mwills@x102a (wills ms 01309) writes: >This is meant as a mild warning to save you the trouble I've had. >Please take it as such. In fact it pertains more to puttrax than to >the BrunoMbox demo. The Bruno demo only had two of six songs that actually worked, and since it was non-standard disk format, I can't install them on my hard drive, and will never listen to it again (there was one really good song, though!). > >This demo is posted in puttrax format. Be careful when unpacking it. >The puttrax.lzh "dearchiver" has no docs with it. I ran puttrax with >no arguments to see what it wanted (I know... asking for trouble) and >it gurued after printing a usage "puttrax " message. Mine gave a task-held error every time, but I never press the CANCEL/RETRY buttons anyway, so I kept on truckin'! > >Reboot. Then the bad part... the command: > > puttrax BrunosMusicbox20019.trax (for example) > >immediately begins writing the contents of the given file, track by >track, to df0:. No prompts, no "Are you sure?", just trashed workbench!!! I don't even HAVE a df0:, so I had to take my computer apart and install an internal floppy. I tried to NewZap for a df0: sequence, but obviously it wasn't there. > >Perhaps there are docs somewhere, but it's a little late for that now. >-- > > - Scott >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >M. Scott Wills, Mail Stop: 102-4844 INTERNET: mwills@x102a.ess.harris.com >Harris Corporation UUCP: uunet!x102a!mwills >Government Aerospace Systems Division CCMail: harris.mwills1 >P.O. Box 94000 FAX: 407-729-3211 >Melbourne, Florida 32902 Voice: 407-729-3283 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.