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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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