Re: Boot/System/System.Setup

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

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?

sim is installed by GNO.  fielder is installed by GSbug.

I don't know precisely what they do, but presumably you'd have
trouble with GNO mulitasking and GSbug debugging if you remove
them.

: 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?

: 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.

Actually what it says is, "I'm more interested in this program WORKING
than making money off of it, but you'd still better pay the shareware
fee if you use it."

: PLEASE let the reader know in the first paragraph exactly what the
: status is for your application e.g., "This is shareware/whatever and
: costs $xx dollars to be sent to Fred Smertz..."

: I put together a library of disks for our Apple club from internet
: downloads. Associated with these downloads is an AppleWorks DB file
: that gives what I think is pertinent information about the
: application. In many cases it isn't clear whether an application is
: freeware or something else. I default to marking it freeware in
: those cases.

That's risky, considering international copyright law.  If you want
to be safe, _always_ contact the author.  And if you can't contact
the author, inform your usergroup that the file has an unknown
status wrt copyright.  Please consider that the file may be being
distributed ILLEGALLY via the Internet.

Tilghman