This is a little off topic, but I was curious and figured one of the fine programmer types around here might be able to explain this...
I have a Compact Flash adaptor, and enjoy using the VFS capabilites to access huge etexts on the memory card. I was moving some files around recently, and moved a shareware game over to the flash adaptor to save memory (specifically, Monopoly), planning to use Launcher to run it. Here is where I get curious. Monopoly has a 10 game limit on the shareware version. Running it on the Palm keeps the 10 limit in place and keeps track of the games played. Moving the PRC file to the memory card does this as well (I assume data files are kept in the Palm memory). Deleting it from the Palm and later reinstalling the original PRC file to either the memory card or Palm also keep the limit at whatever point it was when last run -- which brings me to my question.... what kind of wacky data is this program storing on my Palm that isn't being deleted when the program is deleted? I forgot to change my batteries once, and had to reinstall everything... and Monopoly returned to the default 10 game limit... but deleting it seems to leave the "game counter" intact on my Palm. I was always under the impression that the standard procedure for programs was that using the Palm OS's DELETE function removed all associated databases. I'm asking this not to "scam" companies and keep playing shareware (honestly), but because I'm a bit curious and annoyed that deleting a program doesn't seem to actually remove it from the system's memory. -- David _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
