Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:08:01 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 18:35:44, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>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
I just assumed he was using Windows 95/98, which always create a non-empty
CONFIG.SYS.
You should not assume that Windows puts nothing in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
Christophe
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