[Virtualacorn-list] RISC OS 6 Installation Problem

[Dave Symes]

In article <502e27a69bbriancarroll at f2s.com>,
   Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

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> After playing about with the new installation most of today there
> are a few little problems on which I would be grateful for help.

> a.  The floppy drive does not work on either ADFS or DOS
> floppies, though the latter are fine in Windows XP.  I definitely
> have realfloppy.dll in C:\Program Files\Virtual
> Acorn\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA\Plugins\realfloppy\ .  I made a virgin
> installation of VRPC-AdjustSA on a different hard disc, which
> works fine and finds floppies OK, so there is something wrong
> with the main installation (which has years worth of fixes,
> tweaks, utilities and applications so I don't want to start
> building it again).

> b.  There are /2/ backup Boots which seem to have appeared in the
> root during the installation of RO6.10 : 'Boot96846' and
> 'Boot_N'.  Do I need both? Which should I use if I go back to
> RISC OS 4.39?  Why is '(N)' appended to the hard and RAM disc
> headers, eg, 'HostFS::Penguin.$ (N)'?

> c.  I cannot control the background colour of !Edit properly
> using Edit$Options in file Choices:Users.Single.Boot.Tasks.Edit

> Set Edit$Options : F9 B5 W12 H12 M5 L0 T0 U5000 A105 NCorpus.Bold

> The background colour (dark grey) is set only for lines that
> contain 1 or more characters, leading to a zebra-like display for
> many files.  (Please don't waste time telling me about Zap and
> StrongARM; I happen to like Edit for quick text jobs). This does
> not happen with RISC OS 4.39 but I did once see something similar
> with one of the earlier Selects I think.

> Look forward to your comments :-)

> Brian.

Brian, I've sent you a private email about some of this stuff.

Dave

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