Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!eric From: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Preferences, help? Keywords: Preferences on JH0: Message-ID: <4870@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 88 13:47:51 GMT References: <3173@utastro.UUCP> <4833@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article <4833@cbmvax.UUCP> bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) writes: [deleted stuff about wandering system-configuration files...] >This is a common misunderstanding in harddrive systems that are booted >from a floppy. When the system boots the preferences are loaded from the >file devs:system-configuration. At boot time devs: is really df0:devs. >However, after boot, most systems assign sys: devs: and other logical >directorys to the harddrive so that devs: is really dh0:devs. When you >run preferences from the harddrive and save, you are saving to >the file devs:system-configuration which is really dh0:devs/system-configuration >and not df0:devs/system-configuration, which is what you want. >The answer is to copy the system-configuration file from the harddrive to >the floppy. I have set up my prefernces icon to execute an xicon script >that performs this copy EVERY time I exit preferences. On a related note... The Prefs drawer on the V1.3 Workbench disk (coming soon to a dealer near you!) contains an IconX script called CopyPrefs which also copies devs:system-configuration to df0:devs/system-configuration. We hope to have a little magic to zap this problem in 1.4. -- Eric Cotton Commodore-Amiga (215) 431-9100 1200 Wilson Drive {rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!eric West Chester, PA 19380 "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."