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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: LDW Metafile problem
Message-ID: <5440027@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 20:51:58 GMT
References: <8905061946.AA13963@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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| In a reply to my first request about info re: the metafile save problem,
| a NETter asked me to make sure GDOS was in. Thanks for the tip but that was
| not the problem. I had GDOS in (actually G+Plus) and could run my Timeworks
| DTP. When I tried a /GraphSaveMetafile a file called GEMFILE.GEM (236 bytes)
| was created, followed by the message 'Cannot open workstation'. Damn, I want
| to touch up metafiles with something like EASYDRAW or GEMDRAW (PC). The
| following shows my ASSIGN.SYS file:
| .
| .
| .
| What's the problem here! Has anyone actually saved metafiles with LDW?
| ----------

Hmm, yes, I *have* saved metafiles and subsequently edited them in EASYDRAW. 
So, it can be done!

All I can offer now is this tidbit (previously posted, did you see it?):

| The README file on the LDW Power master disk sez:
| 
| "Font files and device drivers must be located in the directory indicated by
| the path statement (in the ASSIGN.SYS file). When you attempt to save or
| print the graph and, the system cannot find this directory, you will get a
| message: 'Cannot open workstation'."
| 

Somehow, LDW Power can't find the directory specified in your ASSIGN.SYS. I
looked at the file you posted and didn't see anything obviously wrong. Are
you sure that G+Plus is pointing to the right ASSIGN.SYS for LDW? 



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