[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 & RO 6

In message <4eebc7a113dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 31 May, dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Obvious innit, this RO 6 install is turning into a MS-Windows upgrade.
> 
>> David, I'm having a problem with SparkFS, and despite replacing the
>> "IfExists" in SparkFS.Resources with your updated version for the RO 6,
>> I am still getting the same old error message: " File
>> 'SparkFSFiler_OpenDir' not found", when I double click an archive if
>> Spark FS has not been used before in the current session.
> 
>> I do have the path to SparkFS set in the Boot Configure, Boot at startup
>> tool.
> 
>> Any useful additional thoughts please.
> 
>> Dave S
> 
> The problem has now been sorted.
> Prompted by David Pitt, I was reminded to do a *Show Spark* and see what
> presented...
> 
> Strange business, even though I have SparkFS path set in Boot Configure
> Boot Look at, the above command returned a path to a completely different
> SparkFS (Differently named as well), so I've put that version of SparkFS
> down a directory level below the main SparkFS, rebooted the machine and
> now all is okay.
> 
> I still don't understand how a version of SparkFS that is not named
> SparkFS could steal the path pointer from a version set in Boot Configure
> Look at, as SparkFS.
> 
> Ah well such are the mysteries of computing.
> 
> Dave S
> 

I had a similar problem with an old version of Sparkplug. (The related 
apps are a complete coincidence). I had renamed it !OldSparkPlug as I 
didn't want it to be booted. I forgot that every application in the 
Apps directory gets booted, regardless of its name.

To qualify as an Application, it appears to need a name beginning !, 
and to possess a !boot file. It doesn't need a sprite file containing 
a sprite whose name matches the application - in this case the sprite 
was still called SparkPlug, so the folder didn't display the correct 
icon. It still got booted.

Since it was a 1993 version I deleted it.

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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