Technical Information

Appendix D

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

INSTALLING THINKTANK ON A HARD DISK

If you have a hard disk drive, its increased capacity and rapid access will make ThinkTank especially powerful and con- venient. If your disk is not configured for the PASCAL operating system, contact your dealer for instructions. See Appendix B for an introduction to the PASCAL operating system.

Be sure the file SYSTEM.LIBRARY is available on your the disk or volume from which you start or load PASCAL (the “boot disk” or “boot volume”). If ThinkTank can’t find this file on your boot volume, the message CAN’T LOAD REQUIRED INTRINSICS will appear.

Create a PASCAL volume on your hard disk to hold Think— Tank files. We recommend making this volume relatively large, perhaps 750—2500 blocks, to leave enough room for your Think— Tank outlines to grow. A good name for this volume is TANK:.

Use the PASCAL filer’s T(ransfer) command to copy two files from the THINKTANK PROGRAM DISK onto TANK:

TANK. CODE

TANKOPTIONS

You may also find it useful to copy the files on the THINKTANK DATA DISK (the one supplied with the ThinkTank program) at this time.

Finally you must reconfigure ThinkTank as a hard disk system. To do this, insert the THINKTANK DATA DISK in your floppy disk drive and execute the program called HARDPATCH that’s on this disk.

If you wish, you cam configure your hard disk system to start up ThinkTank automatically when you turn on your com- puter, or (on some computers) at least to set the swapping

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