Re: Boot/System/System.Setup

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4rn9o1$t4k@Mars.mcs.com>, J. L. Walters <bird@MCS.COM> wrote:
>1. In my Boot:System:System:Setup folder I have a PIF named
>   Fielder. What does it do? Where did it come from? Additionally,
>   what is SIM? SIM is 1371 bytes of mystery to me. Can I safely
>   remove these files? What is the penalty for doing so?

   No clue on Fielder, but SIM is GNO/ME's Serial Interrupt Manager.
If you use GNO/ME, leave SIM installed. As for "safely disabling"
things, basically, anything can be inactivated. Just run stuff, and
see if anything depended on it. If it did, it _should_ tell you
nicely.

>2. Wouldn't it be grand if every provider of applications for
>   the IIgs attached a comment via oa-I giving the author,
>   status (Shareware, Freeware, Commercial, etc.), and function?

   They only added this comment feature with System 5.0.x (or even as
late as 6.0), so anything older than a given date won't really support
it. Being a summer intern at SoftDisk a few years ago got me in the
good habit of putting author and short description on most of my
programs, but others may not yet do that.


>A comment at large has to do with applications that have README
>files and drone on for "hours," about the application and then bury
>the Shareware/Freeware/Donerware/etc., status "somewhere" towards
>the end. Putting off telling me until the end "kinda" says to me
>that you are not really interested in getting your shareware fee.

   Hmmm. I'd never really considered that. I think I'll do that,
though.

Nathan Mates
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