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From: hutch@celerity.uucp (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problems Running PD SFW on 2000HD
Keywords: Problems using some PD SFW on an Amiga 2000HD
Message-ID: <317@celit.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 16:13:27 GMT
References: <14018@edsews.EDS.COM>
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Reply-To: hutch@celerity.UUCP (Jim Hutchison)
Organization: FPS Computing
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In article <14018@edsews.EDS.COM> petes@edsews.EDS.COM (Pete Starceski) writes:
>While trying to run various PD programs from my Amiga 2000HD (ADOS 1.3), I
>seem to have problems.  Even reading simple README files yields the same
>problem.  I receive an Error 205.  After referencing the error code for
>explaination, I discovered that it meant "Object Not Found".  With the
>README files, the message displayed is "Error 205:c/less not found".
[...]
>The Play program resides in: Work:Music and the Scores are in
>Work:Music/Scores.  I do have the less program residing in Workbench:c.

Now aren't these messages helpful. :-)  Seriously, they'd have to be real
long to tell you what you need to know here.  The problem is that those
icons are using explicit paths.  No amount of path setting in the world is
going to help you here.  You can change the tool in the icon to point at
friendlier things, ":c/less" would be better off as "c:less" to point it at
your central 'c' directory, and likewise with the icons for the players and
scores to be pointed at your Music and Scores directorys.

I realize that this feature just burned you, but please don't be too hard
on it.  It lets you put tools in icons so that you can have a musical score
know how to play itself, or a project find its application program.  Pretty
cool, but unfortunately not possible to developer-proof. :-)

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