Re: Frustrating problem with GNO & ORCA

[mcafee@umich.edu (Sean McAfee)]

In article <D466MG.I74@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <3i32lj$ha8@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
>Sean McAfee <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
>> 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?

It did, until I reinstalled GNO, and then I started having the problems
described below.

>Have you checked that the
>GNO prefixes are set up correctly?

How can I?  There is next to nothing in the GNO manual about ORCA, and no man
page for "compile".  I wish I could have reconfigured GNO manually to make it
able to use ORCA, but the only option I saw was to reinstall it, answering
"Yes" to the question "Do you have existing ByteWorks products?" this time.

There is something peculiar, though.  After reinstalling GNO, I started to
get a pair of "prefix: Directory does not exist" errors whenever I started
the shell.  I found that gshrc expects to find a directory called orca/shell,
but I've been unable to find a reference to this directory in the ORCA manual,
or on any of the ORCA disks.  What gives?

>Which version of ORCA/C and which
>version of GNO?

1.1 and 2.0, respectively.

>> 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!

>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.

Well, I copied the entire libraries directory to another HD partition, used
"compress" on it, and copied it back.  I'm STILL getting Unresolved Reference
errors, though the directory is now alphabetized.

The whole affair is vexing in the extreme.

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