🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello again Folks!

I have solved our recent problem with AMosaic v2.0, pre-release 3; in
fact, just a few minutes after putting the original post out into
several groups, I came across another post which described the same
problem - and a solution. (Sigh... story of my life.)

Anyways, just to put some abs on your attention spans, geddaloado'this!:

Y'see, on the A3000 here, I have the logical assignment 'HOME:' set for
our InterNet programs' sub-system. Now, in AmiTCP/IP v4.2's
'db/password' file, I'd already set the relevant part of my user line to
my temp directory (aka the logical assignment HOME:) - but, I'd left out
the trailing slash. AmiTCP/IP v4.2 doesn't need the slash; hence, its
requirement is not documented in the AmiTCP/IP v4.2 manual - but AMosaic
*does* need it. AmiTCP/IP v4.2 allows you to have a logical assignment
'HOME:' which points to your home directory - and non-AmiTCP/IP related
software can use this logical assignment to store temporary files. This
means, you don't necessarily have to have a 'TempDir' line in your
'ENV:Mosaic/Prefs' file. However, you *must* add the slash - or colon,
depending on what you've set as your 'HOME:' assignment - to the <home-
dir> part of your user line in the AmiTCP/IP v4.2's 'db/password' file.
(See the AmiTCP/IP v4.2's manual, P.122.)

In relation to the above, the 'HOME:' assignment acts as a one-stop shop
for several related programs. Incidentally, a concise, elegant concept,
in keeping with the spirit of the Amiga - dont'cha think?. Of course,
you could always cut through all this crap by simply following the
instructions in AMosaic v2.0's 'readme' and putting in the 'TempDir'
line in the prefs file! ;-) (But ol' Tony here, weeelll... he just likes
to blow his days re-inventing the wheel...)

So, the upshot is, in the absence of a strategic slash, Tony's AMosaic
was trying to save incoming temp stuff to a *name or file* called 'tony'
rather than to the sub-directory 'tony' - which, in fact, it is. (Well,
I think that's what got AMosaic's tail in a twist.)

Of course, this requirement for the slash is stressed in AMosaic Pre-
release 3's 'readme' file, but I missed it 'cause, over-cautiously, I'd
kept the old AMosaic 'readme' as 'readme', re-naming the new one to
something else and temporarily forgetting it. Also, to add confusion to
incompetence, there I was looking for the answer in the AmiTCP/IP v4.2
manual! Not to worry, AMosaic is now running very well, allowing for the
fact that its probably not the fastest web-walker on binary legs. ;-)

Thanks very muchly to all those who offered advice - it's what being
part of a network is all about - you're the right stuff, every one of
you! ;-)

I've just FTP'd 'Aweb' and will have a go with it over the week-end - it
certainly seems promising. However, to be fair, I must say that now our
wee glitch with AMosaic has been solved, the program performs OK. Over
the last few days, Wifey and I have been using it extensively - text,
graphics and forms - without any problems.

Yessiree, she's been wholesomely gathering herbal recipes from every
corner of the Net, visiting the world's libraries, educational
institutes, etc. - and all down to good ol' MUI v3.3, PPP v1.45,
AmiTCP/IP v4.2 and AMosaic v2.0! And me? Well, I've been visiting the
'Penthouse Home Page' - OH! My God! I can't believe I said that!
Whaddagivvaway!!! What will people THINK! How politically incorrect! My
God! The scandal! My 'goody-two-shoes' reputation... shattered! And here
cometh Wifey! Hell's Teeth - I'm dog-tucker if she finds out! HALP! Tony
on a hot tin roof... Where's the erase key...

;-) ;-) ;-)


Cheers, Tony McKee

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tony@zorro.southern.co.nz
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I am a part of all that I have met... yet all experience is but an arch
Wherethro' gleams that untravel'd world whose margins fade
Forever and forever... 'ere I move.

Ulysses

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