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From: jimg@hpiacla.HP.COM (Jim Garrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DPAINT II & Hard Disk
Message-ID: <4830007@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 88 03:03:13 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard
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>Has anyone out there gotten DPAINT II to load files from a hard disk?  I
>have an 'ASSIGN dh: dh1:pics' in my startup sequence but when I get the
>file requester it is full of garbage characters.  If I type the name of a
>file that exists in dh1:pics it will load okay, but it would be nice if I
>could see what files are out there.  I have also tried to increase the 
>stack size, to no avail.  This problem exists on both 1.2 and 1.3 AmigaDOS.
>Oh, I am using a Amiga 1000, Supra 4x4 20Mb disk and 1Mb expanded memory.
>If anyone can help me solve this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks, everyone for the responses.  The problem turns out to be DPAINT 
choking if there are ~40 or more files in the directory being searched.
I took my files and arranged them in subdirectories so that there are
less than 40 files in the main directory, and now everything works just
fine.  Again, thanks for the help.

Jim Garrison

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