**** GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR PORTING PVPOST TO HARD DISK DRIVES

 ; 03/09/89 Jeff D. Karline

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 Unfortunately, every Amiga and Hard Drive are different to some degree so
 that these instructions may need to be modified for your particular
 situation.  IT IS YOUR REPONSIBILITY, OR THE DEALER WHO SOLD YOU YOUR
 HARDWARE, TO BE FAMILIAR WITH YOUR HARDWARE AND IDENTIFY WHAT THOSE
 DIFFERENCES MIGHT BE!

***** Hard Drive Suggestions from Shereff Systems

 It might be too late, particularly if you have had your equipment for
 awhile, to re-sector your Hard Drive partitions.  But, we STRONGLY
 recommend that you do not have large partitions (sectors) when working
 with PVPost (or for that matter any hard drive); for the following reasons.

 - The larger the partition (sector), the greater the need for Nested (mulit-
   level) directories.  Multi-level directories increase the length of a
   files' path name and PVPost has a limit to file path name lengths. If
   the file path name is too long PVPost may crash!

 - Large partitions (sectors) increase the amount of work and program data
   that could be lost (permanently) if you experience a unrecoverable read/
   write error on the partition.

 - The larger the partition, the more difficult is the task of backing up
   data to floppy disk.

 - It will be easier for you to use PVPost if it has it's own partition
   (about 2megs should work), and the partition is labeled JDK.

 In our opinion, partitions of greater than 5-10 megabytes are a catastrophe
 waiting to happen!

***** Step by Step Instructions.

 1. Warm or Cold Boot your Amiga.

 2. Open an CLI, or SHELL, window from the Workbench Icon.

 3. Insert the PVPost (JDK:) floppy disk into a drive.

 4. Enter the instructions following the >1's below at the CLI prompt. (The
    CLI prompt is idicated below as 1>, your computer may have a different
    prompt; such as 1.Sys:>.  Do not enter the 1>, this is only shown to
    seperate the computer commands from the other instructions and
    expalnations below.  Be very careful to follow the instructions and
    enter the commands exactly as shown.

1> copy jdk: to dh#: all
                ^^^
When you have completed the above, it is best that you remove your
PVPost (JDK:) floppy disk from whatever drive you had inserted it.  You
will now need to either relabel your hard drive sector or add an additional
assign statement to your computer's boot startup-sequence.  If you have
copied the PVPost disk to a hard drive sector you have decided to relabel
to JDK: enter the next CLI instruction.

1> relabel dh#: JDK
                ^^^
  (Comment - no colon after JDK)

If you have decided not to relabel a hard drive sector to JDK:, you will
need to edit your sys: or boot:s/startup-sequence and add the following
line of instruction.

assign jdk: dh#:

Normally there are other assign statements in the boot:s/startup-sequence,
just add this one to the list.

Now you're ready to warm-boot your Amiga and use PVPost from WorkBench. There
are additional instructions included with your manual on the differences of
using PVPost from WorkBench; rather than running from CLI.

***** WARNING!!!

PVPost uses considerable memory and other system resources.  Processor and
video interupt timing is very critical for the smooth operation of PVPost.
If your computer's boot startup-sequence initializes background tasks (such
as virusx, clock, or other multi-tasking utilities), or you have other
windows and tasks open when you run PVPost, PVPost may not operate properly.

If you are having problems under such conditions and call Shereff Systems
for user support, the first thing you will be instructed to do is run PVPost
from your original floppy in a virgin (cold start) environmemt. If the
problem disappears, it was most likely caused by your hardware, or other
software either running from your boot startup-sequence or open windows.