Re: RISC OS 3.10

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From: Nicko van Someren
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 09:51

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In article <1992Sep5.185031.23487@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
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>Two observations from using RISC OS 3.10 on my A440/1:
>
>1) When I switch on, a huge blue floppy disc is displayed on screen, with
>what looks like a !System folder icon on it. Also the bottom few pixels
>of the picture look to be corrupted. What is this for?

I think you will find it is wanting a disc containing the text to all the
messages etc. in some language other than english.  Take a good look at
your country configuration.

>2) Occasionally (3 times so far) I have been going about my business in
>the desktop, when I have got the error "!!! CAM Map Corrupt!!!" (note
>the exclamation marks), which promptly kills the task manager. Any
>clues to what causes these would be much appreciated.

It could meen that you have a duff MEMC but more likely some program has
writen over the soft copy of the CAM map and the task manager does not
know what to do about it.

Nicko


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