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View 1.0 Amiga installation

 [1/5] 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 -- /* PeO - AMiGA owner since 1990, CGI, Perl, Assembly language & HTML-fanatic *\ \* Amiga 4000TE/060-50/604e 200, 146Mb, 33.4Gb, ZIP, JAZ, CVPPC/8 */ /* IIyama VM Pro 21", CP-SW2 Subwoofer system, NEC-222 *\ \* Plextor 12-Plex, Yamaha CRW 4416S, Artec A6000C+, Stylus Color 500 */ /* Lightfax 3660, Catweazel Z-II (3*IDE, 1*PC Floppy), Minolta DImage V *\ \* SCSI-Tower, Seagate Tapestor 4/8GB, Ariadne Ethernet, Minolta PagePro 6 */

 [2/5] from: carl:cybercraft at: 10-Apr-2001 18:21


I had the same ""Can not install: Failed to create binary file: ..." error as you to begin with, but managed to get a good install when I ran View from the CLI instead of the icon. I don't know why there's a ".rebol" file written to your RAM disk, but I've also got one in my sys: partition too. If you haven't, then it's probably why you have to install View again after every reboot. I ssume it's your install that puts the ".rebol" in your RAM disk, so perhaps after the install you could copy the ".rebol" to your sys: drawer to see if that'll fix your problem. On 10-Apr-01, P-O Yliniemi wrote:
> Hi, > I am having some problem installing REBOL/View on the Amiga.
<<quoted lines omitted: 66>>
> 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
-- Carl Read [carl--cybercraft--co--nz]

 [3/5] from: jeff:rebol at: 10-Apr-2001 5:56


Howdy, Carl:
> I don't know why there's a ".rebol" file written to your RAM disk, but > I've also got one in my sys: partition too. If you haven't, then > it's probably why you have to install View again after every reboot. > I ssume it's your install that puts the ".rebol" in your RAM disk, so > perhaps after the install you could copy the ".rebol" to your sys: > drawer to see if that'll fix your problem.
Have a look inside .rebol. It should look something like this: view-install-path %/some/where/ view 1.2.3.4 The .rebol is a file created for most non-windows systems used to help REBOL determine when it should install (when REBOL's version tuple is greater than the one found in .rebol) and where to find REBOL. REBOL needs to be able to find itself for things like LAUNCH. REBOL_HOME environment variable usually points REBOL to where it will find the .rebol file. If you don't find a .rebol in your REBOL_HOME then REBOL will try to install. If there is no REBOL_HOME, REBOL looks in HOME. If there is no HOME, REBOL looks in the current directory. -jeff

 [4/5] from: peoyli:algonet:se at: 11-Apr-2001 1:45


Thanks, that solved the first problem (although, I did manage to install View earlier starting from the shell, but I forgot to try that on the last test) Still, REBOL/View does seem to ignore the REBOL_VIEW variable which should set system/options/home.. I have a quite unusual (but flexible) REBOL environment, which shares the 'REBOL home' directory among the different versions, but for now, it seems like View needs its own home location... /PeO

 [5/5] from: peoyli:algonet:se at: 15-Apr-2001 1:23


Gaaahhh... Again, I have the same problem.. have to reinstall after every reboot.. (haven't changed a thing either)... Maybe because I have a somewhat odd REBOL environment (and it doesn't work anymore because /View ignores the REBOL_VIEW and REBOL_HOME variables when searching for user.r) ? 23.Work:Programming/REBOL_examples> getenv REBOL_VIEW /Work/Programming/REBOL_examples/ 23.Work:Programming/REBOL_examples> getenv REBOL_HOME /Work/Programming/REBOL_examples/ The environment I am using is described on http://jove.prohosting.com/~peoyli/peo/computing/rebol (it worked with the beta versions of /View) /PeO

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