Re: :zz: Does the Boot Disk now do Saves? ChrzT

[Andrew Pam <xanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:03:23AM -0500, Mark Oeltjenbruns wrote:
> Just to double check my problem, I  formatted a disk and tried it again.
> Same thing happened.  I got the Save prompt, put in fresh disk, it clicked
> and whirled a while, a 'see www.xanadu... for more info' came up with a
> bunch of # #  # # >> # # > > on the bottom with the disk light staying on.

Then it should have correctly saved, exited and halted the system.
Have you looked at the contents of the disk?

> Tried rebooting to Zigzag and load the dataset but it flashed up a brief
> message I think saying it couldn't open the file or something.  This is the
> same thing that happened on my home system.  Only tried on two systems since
> I got the same thing to happen on both.

Hmmm.  Not sure why it didn't load - could you check what's on the disk?

> I tried to get it working under a Windows perl version but wasn't
> successful, any plans on porting to Windows/Dos system?

Yes.

Cheers,
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