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!System/!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 » Archimedes World » AW-1996-12.adf » !Speed_Speed |
| Filename: | !System/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 04A6 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
The !System directory contains relocatable modules shared by various Applications Suite programs, held in the directory !System.Modules. You will not need to take any special action to load these modules: they will be loaded as required by applications, provided a directory display containing !System has been opened at some stage. If the error message "Filing system or path 'System:' not present" appears when you are using an Applications Suite program, you should open a directory display containing !System and then try the operation again. If an error message of the form "You need some-module x.xx or later" appears when you try to run an application then the directory !System.Modules does not contain a sufficiently up-to-date version of the relocatable module "some-module". If this version of !System is used with a machine running RISC OS 2 this will probably be because !System.Modules does not contain the module at all. In this case it will be necessary to add relocatable modules from the RISC OS 2 !System to the Modules directory in this !System - copy the RISC OS 2 !System.Modules directory into the RISC OS 3 !System directory (the directory containing this file).
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