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From: jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 2000HD questions!!
Message-ID: <11838@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 89 20:39:30 GMT
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Well kiddies, its time for our weekly show and tell.  I'll show you what 
I don't know and you can tell me how.

I have made some very interesting observations during the past several
days that leave me puzzled about the way my 2000HD looks at life.
Unfortunately my sessions at Amys keyboard are usually forced to be
brief ones when I can snatch the time from other demands.  As a result
I do not get the luxury to explore some of these issues to the depth
that I would like, and come up with some of these answers myself.  I
realize that most of you who read this have no idea what I mean since
you are free to devote countless hours plumbing the depths of AMY and
thereby fully mastered her in less than two weeks. :^)  :^)  :^o
Why are you looking at me like that?????

1.  I cannot seem to get Prefs to switch to interlaced WB.  I select Prefs
from the workbench window, observe that the interlace selector is set to
NO, click on YES, then USE.  Prefs promptly goes away and nothing gets
changed.  Re-selecting Pref shows the interlace selector is still NO.
Then I try the same routine, but select SAVE.  It appears to save (the
pointer goes to sleep momentarily).  To try it I re-boot and viola' -
up comes workbench in NON-interlace.  Selecting Prefs from the Workbench
again reveals (Yup, you guessed it) the interlace selector is NO.  But
I could have sworn I had just saved it ON?  Obviously I am doing some
thing not quite right here.  Does the HD boot-up ignore the WB Prefs?
Even if it did, why wasn't the WB Prefs updated when I selected it and
SAVEd it?

2.  How can I free up the maximum amount of core so I can run some of
the core hog demos that need about 800k.  After normal boot-up the 
WB memory meter tells me I have about 720K.  So I ask myself, what is  
eating up that 280K?  With what little knowledge I have and no good
DOS manuals I poke around and find very few things I can remove and
gain core back.  RAM: for example is using less than 3k.  Ahah, perhaps
WB is using up the most of that.  I deftly excise LoadWB and EndCLI 
from the Boot:s/startup-sequence and reboot.  Ami promptly comes back
and displays the CLI prompt.  Anxious to assess my results I do an
AVAIL and find I have about 460K of chip and 260K of fast for a total
of 720K.  Hmmm!  That bears a striking resemblence to the amount the
WB memory meter said.  Perhaps WB does not use much core after, but I
find these two core figures hard to accept.  SOOOOO--Who is camping
on my core and how do I evict them?

3.  Occasionally when I re-boot AMI appears to read the boot code
from the Hard Drive and then wanders off into oblivion until I prod
her with another three finger salute.  Then all is well.  Me thinkest
this is not ladylike behavior.   Any comment?

4.  When I start shell from the WB window I get another anomily.
After (note I said after) I click on the shell window the very first
character I type is lost.  After that the shell performs properly. Even
if I put it to the back and later bring it to the front it accepts the
first character typed after being clicked in.  I frequently get this
with CLI also, but I have not isolated the conditions where it does
and does not eat the first character after invocation.  Are these
items (3 &4) possible symptoms of a sick mind?
(NO!! not mine, the computers!!)

5.  I am about to remedy some of my ignorance and get Rob Pecks 
'The Amiga Companion', but even that has some fall-out.  Wasn't there
a note not too far back that Rob was about to release a New & Improved
Bigger & Better version?  If so does any one know the status or the
expected availability?  Will it also be only available from Amiga 
World?

Well, I think that is about all for this round, but don't dispair.
I can assure you there are more equally exciting issues just lurking
in the wings.  Murphy promised me!!

Thanks again for your patience and your excellent response.

Regards to all;  Jerry