RE: [zzdev] Re: :zz: Does the Boot Disk now do Saves? ChrzT

["Mark Oeltjenbruns" <mark_oeltjenbruns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Andrew Pam [mailto:xanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent:	Monday, October 12, 1998 8:26 AM
>To:	Mark Oeltjenbruns; zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:	[zzdev] Re: :zz: Does the Boot Disk now do Saves?  ChrzT
>
>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?

A file named zigag.dat about 80K.
I tried copying it to zigzag.dat and zigzag.data(a long file name, but you
never know.)

>> 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?

As stated above.  I can't see the message poping up so I'm not sure if it is
just
a file name problem or a file contents problem.
>
>> I tried to get it working under a Windows perl version but wasn't
>> successful, any plans on porting to Windows/Dos system?
>
>Yes.

Need a Windows programmer for beta testing?

>
>Cheers,
>	*** Xanni ***
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