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Fonts/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Apps » PipeDream 4 (1991) (Colton Software) (Examples Disc).adf |
| Filename: | Fonts/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0996 bytes |
| Load address: | FFFFFF43 |
| Exec address: | A837BE95 |
Duplicates
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File contents
Using !Merge --------------- !Merge is a utility for maintaining and combining application or !System directories. From time to time, Acorn may release new modules or modify existing applications to provide new or enhanced facilities. To ease the problems of updating applications Acorn supplies the !Merge utility to manage this process. Startup the !Merge application by double clicking on it. A dialogue box like this will appear:- +---------------------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------------+ | | Master application: | | | << Upper box | +------------------------+ | | | | +------------------------+ | | New application: | | | << Lower box | +------------------------+ | | | | Drag the original application into | << Messages | this window | | | +---------------------------------------------------+ Drag the master application to anywhere in the !Merge dialogue box. The upper box (for the master application) should change to show a path name containing your master application. You should now drag the application which you wish to add to or consolidate with your master application. The pathname for this will appear in the lower box. (If you use a purely floppy based system you may have to change discs during this process. If there are no problems the applications will be consolidated and the message "Application updated" will appear. If there are problems, you should read the error messages and take appropriate actions. The only common error message you may see is "disc full" which should not occur if you are merging onto a new disc. If you have additional files on the master disc you should move them elsewhere. If an error occurs !Merge will report "Update failed. Correct problem then drag the ...". Once you have resolved the problem you can restart the merge process. When !Merge is finished you can quit the application either by menuing on the !Merge window and selecting QUIT or by selecting the CLOSE (�) icon on the window.
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