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