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From: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Do I have a lemon?
Message-ID: <2079@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 88 13:26:10 GMT
References: <1021@pur-phy>
Reply-To: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <1021@pur-phy> tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes:
>I just recieved Manx 3.6 etc and like that SDB! But when I compile
>I keep getting system requests for the boot disk - I don't boot up
>on a compiler disk, I have most everything in memory - I can
>click cancel and it goes on its merry way. I've got the environment
>stuff 'set' correctly, and have reassigned C:,S:,T: and SYS: etc.
>In fact I reeassign everything (FONTS: etc.) and more and still
>get those requests!!!

I don't have these problems, and I do something similar.  Most likely your
forgetting something.  Use 'assign' to see if anything is still assigned to
your boot disk.  Also try 'set'.  Oh, and for more information, try
'info'.  That will tell you if you have any outstanding locks on your
boot disk.  Might give you some clues.

>I have noticed that if you compile with +ff of +fi the compiler needs
>to suck in the floating point libraries (why??????) if they haven't
>already been brought in but this is a different issue.

First, these are link libraries.  Actual code is linked into the final
binary.  Second, even if they were the other kind of library, the shared
Amiga kind, they might get purged if no one was using them and the system
needed the memory.

Ken Chiu