Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:33748 comp.sys.amiga.tech:5110 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Problem Saving A2000 Printer Preferences Keywords: Guru message received after saving prt pref Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 20:06:46 GMT References: <13646@edsews.EDS.COM> <6862@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 29 >In article <13646@edsews.EDS.COM> petes@edsews.EDS.COM (Pete Starceski) writes: >>I have an Amiga 2000HD and am running AmigaDOS 1.3 with Workbench. To alter >>the printer preferences to my print device, a Panasonic 1124, select the >>printer preferences icon under the Preferences Drawer. After I poke down to >>select Epson Q (for device), I then select "OK" and another screen displays. >>At this screen, I poke SAVE and then the screen goes blank and the power >>light begins to flicker. I then receive a guru message of a software error >>and am requested to depress the left mouse key. The system then reboots and >>comes up fine --- but alas the printer settings are not saved. I am able to >>succesfully alter the print settings when I use the preferences icon under >>the Preferences Drawer. Can you not directly alter print settings through >>use of this Printer Preferences icon? >> >>Any help here is appreciated. >> >>(Is this a bug in 1.3?) After executing Preferences, run the script: Workbench:prefs/CopyPrefs. This copies the preferences from the workbench partition, where the preferences command has stored them, to the Boot partition, v:where the t(system looks for them at boot time. -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)