I just installed the downloadable version of Squeak 3.5 on a Windows XP machine.
I can start Squeak on local images (i.e. on the C: drive).
that is, this works from a cmd prompt:
cd /d c:\squeak squeak.exe squeak.image
I tried to open an image several ways, but am not able to start up images on network shares.
For instance, this doesn't work:
c:\squeak\squeak.exe \ned\homes\Squeak\3.6\squeak.image
even though I can in fact see the image file in the explorer.
Squeak complains that it can't find the file.
Why doesn't this work?
If I map a drive it works, though very very slowly:
map h: \ned\homes c:\squeak\squeak.exe h:\Squeak\3.6\squeak.image
But I was trying to avoid mapped drives, since they seem to be just "tacked on" to NT (i.e. they have to go through a translation to become native resource names, etc.) and they're something else that can break.