Re: GS questions

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 9 déc, 07:40, mojoehand <jg...@zianet.com> wrote:
> I just got GS/OS 6.01 installed on a Zip disk. I had no end of trouble
> with bad floppy disks.

Hi !

>
> When booting up, I get an error that says "The selected Appletalk
> connection could not be found". I'm not using Appletalk. Did I screw
> something up when I did the installation?
>

Not at all, there are some inits / drivers / fsts / control panels /
GS settings for slot 1/2/7 that have been set up on your system. Try
disabling them from the control panel and other different folders.

> If I later want to install an Uthernet and Marinetti, do I need any of
> the Appletalk or network related stuff from the install floppies?

No. Marinetti installs its stuff on the associated */System/
subfolders and voilà.

>
> I did install the Laserwriter driver. It is listed in the direct
> connect control panel. Does this need any of the Appletalk stuff? The
> reason I installed the Laserwriter is so that I can print to a
> Postscript file and later print that on my PC.

I don't know.

>
> That gives me an idea. When I have an Uthernet and Marinetti
> installed, is it possible to setup a print queue on the PC and print
> to it from the GS via TCP/IP, or would I need Appletalk on the PC?

I do not know with a PC. With Sweet16 on a Mac, a virtual printer is
installed on the IIgs that offers the ability to do that.

>
> When I drag a file to the trash and reboot, the trash is empty. On a
> Mac, the contents of the trash survive a reboot or shutdown. Is this
> not the case on a GS?

It is not the case. It is a temporary RAM trash only: a list of the
items to be deleted are copied there. Upon reboot or when GS/OS needs
to perform disk operations on a volume, the trash is emptied...

antoine