[REBOL] View 1.0 Amiga installation
From: peoyli:algonet:se at: 9-Apr-2001 22:45
Hi,
I am having some problem installing REBOL/View on the Amiga.
First, I had problems with the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME variables,
which seems to be ignored by the new /View version, but I came around
this problem in some way.
The problem is that after every reboot, Rebol wants to install itself
again and again, and now when I tried this time, I got an even more weird
problem (I had SnoopDOS running to trace the problem the third time I tried
to install):
Before starting to install, I removed the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME files
from env: and envarc: (which should remove all trace of older versions ?)
I extracted the view011.lha archive to Disk-01:rebview/
(lha x -F view011.lha Disk-01:rebview/)
and started the installation from workbench. SnoopDOS log:
Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res.
----- ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ----
1 WBL ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
2 WBL Load rebol OK
3 WBL ChangeDir SYS:
4 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
5 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
6 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
7 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
8 rebol Open CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write OK
9 KingCON DOS-proces Open ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info Read Fail
10 rebol Open * Read OK
11 rebol Open * Read OK
12 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
13 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK
14 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
15 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
16 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK
17 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:rebview
After accepting the licence agreement, I entered /Work/Programming/REBOL/ as
the installation directory (only "create above.." checked, even if I had that
directory before), and then "Install"
Rebol/View pops up "Can not install: Failed to create binary file:
/Work/Programming/REBOL/rebol
SnoopDOS log:
Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res.
----- ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ----
26 rebol Open Disk-01:rebview Read Fail
ok.. seems like REBOL wanted to read the rebview directory as a file.. so I
move out the contents of the rebview directory to the root directory of the
Disk-01 partition and retry the installation:
Another try. SnoopDOS log after starting the installation again:
Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res.
----- ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ----
1 WBL ChangeDir Disk-01:
2 WBL Load rebol OK
3 WBL ChangeDir SYS:
4 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
5 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
6 WBL LockScreen Workbench OK
7 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
8 rebol Open CON:10/10/600/220/REBOL/AUT Write OK
9 KingCON DOS-proces Open ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info Read Fail
10 rebol Open * Read OK
11 rebol Open * Read OK
12 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
13 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK
14 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
15 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
16 rebol Open rebol.info Read OK
17 rebol ChangeDir Disk-01:
Accept
again, and the same installation directory. Rebol says "installation
succeeded.". SnoopDOS log:
Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res.
----- ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ----
1 rebol Open Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Write OK
2 rebol Open Work:Programming/REBOL/rebo Read OK
3 rebol Open ram:.rebol Write OK
4 rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK
5 rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK
6 rebol Open ram:.rebol Read OK
Why.. is a file ".rebol" written on the RAM disk ?
File contents:
; This file is for REBOL configuration information. DO NOT EDIT
view-install-path %/Work/Programming/REBOL/
View 1.0.0.1.1
And, when I check the "rebol" file in Work:Programming/REBOL, I notice this is
a text file that contains (on a single 193 character line):
setup.htmlrebol.inforebollicense.htmlicons/feedback.r.infofeedback.rrebview/movie/vs/.filelistdocs.sun.com/piccs/Mypics.infoMypics/MailZIP.infoMailZIP/Amiga-Archive.infoAmiga-Archive/disk.info
which is the contents of my Disk-01 partition's root directory.
/PeO
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