Re: TAME troubles

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 11:24 PM 9/6/2006, James Woolley wrote:
> Michael, thanks very much for that suggestion, but deleting the Tame
> 5.1 folder did not make any difference. What's the next step, do you think?
> One person suggested off-list that it was time for a "system
> restore," but I'm hoping that such a blunt instrument won't be necessary.

James,
I've installed/uninstalled various iterations of TAME more times than
I can count, and it has never left behind settings that affected the
NTVDM window. So the suggestions I'm offering are based on the
assumption that elements -- settings -- of the program were somehow
left behind. Make sure \Program Files\Tame 5.1 and all sub-folders
have been deleted. (In \Program Files\Tames 5.1\App
Support\Commom\Settings there is _default.view.tam which has the
settings for the console.) There are only two places where TAME has
files: My Docs\Tame 5.1 and Program Files\Tame5.1\*.*. To be overly
fastidious, or if you like, obsessive, make sure there are no TAME
lines in Autoexec.nt. Finally, and perhaps anally, you can make sure
all the TAME entries in the registry have been deleted; use RegEdit
or a registry search tool to look for keys and values with the
characters *TAMEdos* in them.
Another thought: I start XY from a .bat file (I also run NB, which
for reasons I can't explain, does not like TAME managing its NTVDM
module). To avoid this, I have a simple xywrite.bat. David Thomas
told me to create my WIN desktop shortcut from editor.exe, then
change the command line to start the .bat. If you were running XY
from a bat, and if your shortcut was created from that .bat file
instead of from the .exe, I think in the properties tab of such a
shortcut, there were settings to size the dos window. Perhaps you
should check for those.
Michael Norman