Msg: 1722 *Conference*

02-28-92 15:24:40

From: HARVEY CHRISLEY

To : TRACY ALLEN

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #1719 (SARDINE AND SUPERROM)

     Tracy,

     Thanks for your comments.

     Why doesn't Sardine look for the "WORDS.DO" file by name, I don't know? I
have no idea why having "Super" on the menu messes it up. I can see that you
know a lot more about this then I do. I have no idea what a "ROM" trigger file
is. I didn't even know there were such things. I basically have no idea how
"Super" calls SuperRom or why you can't delete it from the main menu. Even
"CHANGE.BA" won't let you delete it. But I did discover that "CHANGE.BA" would
let me hide it, so I went that route. That's what I mean by "Super" being
hidden instead of being deleted. If you look in the directory area it's still
there, just not displayed, just like any hidden file. But having it hidden
seems to solve the problem.

     What I meant by "Super" not being found in the directory area was that it
isn't where I expected it to be. I expected to find it somewhere near the
beginning but instead found it much farther down. But it was there so I guess
that comment doesn't make sense on my part. You're right about what my program
does, it just scans the directory area looking for the name "Super". The
location of "Super" moves depending on what files you have in your machine, but
you probably know that. When it finds it, it just changes the attribute to
hidden. This takes "Super" off the main menu and allows Sardine to work. Since
I have no idea what a "ROM" trigger file is, I have no idea if "Super" appears
in the directory as one. I do know if you delete "Super" you cannot bring it
back like any other filename. Once you hide it, it's gone, so I guess it's the
same thing as being deleted. I also tried going into basic and typing KILL
"Super" but that gave me a FF error. I tried to rename "Super" to something
else that I could delete but that didn't work either. What lead me to the
program I wrote was discovering that I could hide "Super" with "CHANGE.BA" and
Sardine would work. So I just borrow the routine that hides files from
"CHANGE.BA" and wrote a small program to find where "Super" was and hide it.

     It sounds like you know a lot more about these things then I do. I'm sure
you could find a way to accomplish what my program does but with any rom. I
like the way Sardine installs itself. It creates a file called "TWORD+" that
can be deleted, copied to another bank and doesn't seem to interfere with
anything. SuperRom's way of doing it just seems to make things more difficult.

     That's about it. Thanks for writing and by the way, what the heck is a
"ROM" trigger file anyway.

Harv