Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 15:35:44 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 15:02:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 28, 2000 at 14:15:43, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On January 28, 2000 at 13:59:10, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I bought R-T with Rebel 10 as an bonus engine. But when I try to play Rebel 10, >>>it doesn´t work. When I start the Rebel 10 engine, I get a warning message like >>>this: >>> >>>W A R N I N G, >>> You must have following line in your Config.sys: FILES=20 >>> >>>Before this, I got other error messages stating that I should remove some lines >>>in my autoexec.bat, I removed those, and I tried to run the program but as I >>>said, the error/warning message above appeared. >>> >>>I´d really apreciate some help… >>> >>>Alvaro ( Viva el Barca !! ) >> >>Hola Alvaro, >> >>Using any text editor (Notepad, for example) create a file into which you should >>enter the following "FILES=30" (no commas, of course). Save this file as >>config.sys. Then restart your computer and Rebel should run fine. >> >>Jorge > > >DO NOT DO THAT! > >It would erase whatever you previously had in your CONFIG.SYS file. > >The right way is to MODIFY your current config.sys. > >1) Start NotePad >2) Click File -> Open >3) In the "name" box, type c:\config.sys >4) Click OK >5) At the end of the text that appears (if any), create a new line: > files=20 >6) Save the file > > >Are you sure that you installed Rebel 10 before starting it? > >You should also direct these questions to the Rebel Home Page: www.rebel.nl > > > Christophe Christophe, I had presumed (apparently correctly) that Alvaro was trying to run Rebel 10 under Win 95/98. That's why I thought it would be very simple to just create a new config.sys. Win 95/98 usually uses an empty config.sys, therefore adding a line with "files=30" or "files=50" could not have spoiled anything. Naturally, had he been trying to do the same thing in DOS, I would not have advised making a _new_ config.sys, but only editing it. However, I was pretty sure that he was using Win9.* as he mentioned Rebel Tiger... You seem to have taken it for granted that he was running it under DOS, while he was not... *** Djordje
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