Program running in backgroud, cannot find how it is starting.

[JonnyRotten]

Started working on a RJ3-iB today. There is something calling up a (I assume) Karel program when I start it up. It's messing with registers, and posting errors when I change other registers.

When I go to:
Select > Type > Karel - there is a Karel program called START, which I cannot delete because it's in use.

If I go to Monitor on the select screen, it shows START is in use, and two other macro programs, which start has called.

So, I went to Menu > File > Set device to MD, and copied the Start.VR (which is the only file called start in the list) file to a CF card, to check out on my PC.

If I use WinOLPC to open it, it opens up that robots default variables file.

If I try to do a Karel Translation on it in WinOLPC, I get garbage.

My questions
1: Is there some other way to extract KAREL programs from a robot to read?

2: Where else could it be calling this program? I checked in Menu > Setup > Config and it is not listed in the hot start or cold start program items. I also checked in the $PWR_NORMAL and $PWR_SEMI system vars.

3: How can I kill this program?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[leopard]

Go to system config screen, make sure you did not call the program at:
3 COLD START Autoexec program:

[JonnyRotten]

I named it incorrectly in mine. Sorry, that is blank, for cold and hot start.

[Nation]

Check the system varible $SHELL_CFG.$SHELL_NAME. It might be started from there.

Code:

$SHELL_CFG.$SHELL_NAME

Name: Name of the Shell Task

Description: This is the name of the shell task to be run automatically at each cold start. If this is uninitialized or nil, then the system `C’ shell task is run. If this is set to a valid task name, then the name of the task is run.

Power Up: N/A

[JonnyRotten]

I just got this tip from a fellow programmer, I just got back from verifying that $SHELL_CFG.SHELL_NAME is ''

[JonnyRotten]

I guess my next step is to wipe it out, I have a disk from a similar robot. Hopefully it works!

[r1mattrr]

usually if you have the program selected then do a re-start it will not allow it to run because it is open.