Re: Frustrating problem with GNO & ORCA

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3i32lj$ha8@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
Sean McAfee <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
> I hope someone can help me; I'm at my wits' end.
> 
> The problem is in compiling ORCA/C programs from GNO.  No matter how short
> the program or what it's supposed to do, I get the message
> 
>    5/cc: I/O error
> 
> when I use GNO's "compile" command.

I assume it works fine when you use ORCA?  Have you checked that the
GNO prefixes are set up correctly?  Which version of ORCA/C and which
version of GNO?

> To make matters worse, since I reinstalled GNO to (supposedly) make it work
> with ORCA, I get a host of Unresolved Reference errors when I try to compile
> programs from the ORCA shell.  According to the manual, this happens when
> the orca/libraries directory is out of order, and this can be fixed with the
> compress command; but I only get ProDOS "Access not allowed" messages when I
> try this.  ARGH!

The "compress" command is one of the really nasty commands included in
ORCA (the other one is "switch").  They do direct block accesses to
modify directories.  GS/OS will not allow a block write operation if
there are any open files on the volume.  If your libraries folder is
on your boot disk, then this explains it (the Sys.Resources file is
always open).

All you need to do is to alphabetise the library files in the
directory (the order of any subdirectories is not important).

You can move individual files out of the libraries folder using the
move or rename command, then move them back in the correct order.

> This problem has been plaguing me for over a month now.  I'm almost ready to
> sell my firstborn to whoever can help me fix what's wrong.

I promise to give your firstborn back again if you guess my name...  :-)

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David Empson
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