Sv: Need help starting GEM on Win 95

[Soeren Bovbjerg]

Hi,

I have just startet using PD and GEM, but I also also had the same problem - and solved it. It seems, that the PD commandline parameters are case sensitive (!!!!) In my case it works fine if I type:

pd -lib /pd/gem/Gem

(with an uppercase G)

Remember to put both the 'pd' and 'pd/gem' directories in your path!

However, GEM also seems to be sensitive to where PD is located. I could not start GEM when I installed PD in a subdirectory (e.g. c:\music\pd\ with gem in c:\music\pd\gem\) but that doesn't seem to be your problem.

By the way, are you using NT or 95/98?? I have tried win95 and Linux, and I think the it is running rather slowly under win95 compared to the Linux version.

Please don't by a G3 - make a Linux box instead - it's free - and better ;-)

Gee, I hope this works, otherwise this will look like a REEEEAL stupid answer!!

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Soeren Bovbjerg
Aalborg University, Denmark
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>My system: Pentium 150, 32 MB of RAM, AWE 64 Gold.  Please tell me if
>this setup is too slow.
>
> PD by itself is slow but it runs.  From what I understand, to start GEM
>
>I click on the Start Menu, Run, and type:
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -lib /pd/gem/GEM
>
>or create a shortcut and type the same in the Start In value.
>
> The location of the startup files in my system are:
>
>    D:\pd\bin\pd
>
>    D:\pd\gem\GEM
>
> What happens is that only the MSDOS window will appear for a split
>second then close.  Is there a trick to specify the drive the library is
>
>on?  Other comands I tried:
>
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -dac -lib /pd/gem/GEM
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -nosound -lib /pd/gem/GEM
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -adc -lib /pd/gem/GEM
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -lib D:/pd/gem/GEM
>    D:\pd\bin\pd -lib D:\pd/gem/GEM
>
> I tried moving everything (PD and GEM files) to the C Drive.  The
>command line:
>    \pd\bin\pd
>would work for PD, but not:
>    \pd\bin\pd -lib /pd/gem/GEM
>
> What am I missing, please stop me from shopping for a G3.
>
>--
>
>Stephen
>
>Stephen J. Parise
>step808 at earthlink.net
>http://home.earthlink.net/~step808/
>
>
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