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

[Andrew Pam <xanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 09:31:18AM -0500, Mark Oeltjenbruns wrote:
> A few further experiments.  I was able to get the error message 'scroll
> locked'.  "Can't open zigzag.data/zigag.dat : not a directory"  I tried
> making a directory named zigzag.data and copied all the files into but that
> produced the same message.

Aha!  Probably another mistake on my part.  Well spotted.

> When I tried to save again I got an auto-renaming thing.  I changed the name
> and it seemed to work, but there doesn't seem to be any way to select a
> different filename on startup, making it a somewhat useless thing to do.

Yeah, the loading and saving was a quick hack on my part.  Can you tell?
:-)

I promise to do better next time.  Which should be fairly soon, incorporating
the intervening improvements in both the Linux kernel and Zigzag.

Cheers,
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