[Coco] Mess Question

[Manny]

tim lindner wrote:
> Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
> 
>> This makes me wonder if the Python module that helps MESSyFront isn't
>> working correctly, though... How long have these options been in the 
>> CoCo3 ROM for MESS?
> 
> I added the hard disk option about two years ago. But the others have
> been there since the near begining.
> 
> flop[0-3] is kind of new. MESS used to accept up to 4 unindexed -flop
> switches.

Okay, I did a little looking, and the Python module in MESSyFront is 
flawed for SDLMESS. MESSyFront looks for the version number of the 
executable that you are MESSing around from. xMESS used the '-V' option 
for getting it's version number, whereas SDLMESS uses '-v'.

This causes MESSyFront to not find the version number, which causes it 
to use the '-floppydisk' option that was present in older versions of 
xMESS, I think, possibly the CoCo ROM. I've done a quick fix, that 
doesn't fix the problem, but makes MESSyFront assume that when it can't 
get the version number of the MESS executable, it defaults to using 
'-flop[0-3]'.

Soooo, after all of that explaining, that means that I did know about 
the change, but forgot. :)

Thanks, Tim! You've helped this lazy guy out!

-M.