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Re: More dataypes problems

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From: singh
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 22:14
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In article <4c7ajv$g5c@uwm.edu>, integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I
Rosenberg) wrote:

> I've been trying for a really long time to get my datatypes to work, and I
> can't figure it out for the life of me. I have d/l'ed some datatypes from
> aminet and insstalled them like this.
> 
> I have a SYS:devs/datatypes directory, containing:
> 
> [4][Workbench:Devs/DataTypes] ls
> AmigaGuide  FTXT        JFIF        WAVE
> BMP         GIF         VOC         exe
> 
> 
> then I have a sys:classes/datatypes directory, looks like this:
> 
> [4][Workbench:Classes/DataTypes] ls
> VOC_DT.Doc           bmp.datatype         text.datatype
> ZGIFDatatype.Doc     exe.datatype         voc.datatype
> amigaguide.datatype  gif.datatype         wav.datatype
> ascii.datatype       jfif.datatype
> 
> 
> I also have a line in my startup-sequence: 
> 
> C:AddDatatypes REFRESH QUIET
> 
> 
> 
> Does this look like everything is set up correctly? That is the extent of my
> set-up.. should datatypes work now? I've never gotten them to work in any
> program.. I'm trying to get IBrowse to have inlined gifs, or MultiView, or
> ANYTHING, nothing wants to work for me. I can't figure it out. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> -Noah Rosenberg
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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> -integral@csd.uwm.edu

Where in the startup-sequence do you have that line? I had problems with
datatypes and corrected it by putting adddatatypes refresh further down. 
Also check the spelling you used, a common mistake is the type:
addatatypes instead of "adddatatypes."

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Subject: Re: More dataypes problems
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