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
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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."