Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu!ddkilzer From: ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) Subject: Re: install "New Print Shop" to 3.5" drive? Message-ID: Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <2a61p7$hpr@fermat.mayo.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:45:28 GMT Lines: 86 >elw@mayo.edu (Ellis Workman, Med Sci, 4-4435) writes: >>There is an "install option" when you start "New >>Print Shop" (//e version) that supposedly installs >>to a Ram drive or hard disk. I don't have a hard disk >>but a 3.5" drive in slot 7 and a RamFactor in slot 5. >>It will install to the RamFactor but the not the 3.5" >>drive. Is there any trick to this? >>After installing to the RamFactor I have created a >>3.5" disk by copying all the files and directories >>to the 3.5" drive but can't run it. ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes: >Hehe. I remember dealing with this problem--I thought Broderbund was >incredibly stupid for not letting you install the program on a 3.5" >disk. If I remember correctly, I had to do one of two things: >1. Copy the installation files onto the RAM disk and then install the >program onto the 3.5" disk that way. (I don't think this worked, >though.) >2. Install the files on the RAM disk, then copy them back to the 3.5" >disk, and finally use a sector editor (Block Warden from ProSel, Copy // >Plus' SECTOR EDITOR, etc.) to change some hard-coded pathnames. My copy >of The New Print Shop is at home, though, so I can't figure out for sure >what I did. >I also remember reading about the path for TNPS in "Scarlett", BRCC's >(Big Red Computer Club) monthly newsletter. I'm sure I still have the >issue, but again it's at home. Does anybody have that issue or remember >what you had to patch to install TNPS onto a 3.5" disk? I received the following mail message about installing TNPS on a 3.5" disk and thought I would post it to the newsgroup as well: ----- Return-Path: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 22:40:34 EST From: jmck@bbs.ausom.oz.au (John McKenna) Message-Id: <9310261140.AA16509@bbs.ausom.oz.au> To: ddkilzer@iastate.edu Subject: The New Print Shop Greetings from Down Under. To those wanting New Print Shop on a 3.5" floppy, the setup below works :- Have the following files in the root directory: BASIC SYSTEM SYS PRODOS SYS STARTUP BAS PSD DIR PS DIR The "Startup" file is simple : ] 10 PRINT CHR$(4) "PR#3":PRINT:PRINT CHR$(4) "-/NEW.PRINT.SHOP/PS/PS.SYSTEM" The New Print Shop Files all go in the PS subdirectory, and the directory tree looks like this : /NEW.PRINT.SHOP--->PSD---------->PSL.DATA----------> BORDERS | | | |-> FONTS | | |-->PS |->GRAPHICS | |-> USER Best wishes from the AUSOM User group, Melbourne, Australia. AUSOM = Apple Users Society of Melbourne. ----- Dave -- David D. Kilzer \ ST:TNG _Relics_ Computer Engineer 3 / Capt. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty") ddkilzer@iastate.edu \ "I may be a captain by rank, but I never Iowa State University, Ames / wanted to be anything but an engineer."