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- Use of !Patch
- =============
-
- This program applies and removes patches from applications. If you are using
- floppy disks, you are strongly recommended to copy !Patch and !Scrap to
- an empty disk, double-click on this new !Scrap, and then run !Patch from
- the new disk. This will significantly reduce the number of disk swaps
- you will have to make.
-
- To test whether an application needs patching drop the application (or
- directory containing it or indeed the entire contents of $) onto the !Patch
- icon on the icon bar. A window will open indicating the known patches for
- the program, and whether they can be applied. If a patch has already been
- applied there will be the option to remove it. You should always take a
- backup of an application before patching it. Press the menu button on the
- mouse while the pointer is over the !Patch window to get the menu of patch
- options.
-
- If there is plenty of free space on the floppy disk containing the
- application you are going to patch (eg. at least 450K if you are patching
- !DTP) then running a !Scrap there will reduce the number of disk swaps
- even more. It is likely however that there will not be enough free disk
- space for you to be able to do this.
-
- If the patch files you need are supplied seperately to !Patch, double click
- on them or the application directory which supplies them.
-
- !Patch knows how to patch the following programs:
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- Name Description Patch
- ---- ----------- -----
- !DTP Acorn Desktop Publisher Allows !DTP to import RISC OS 3
- Draw files (works on RISC OS 2).
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- !Hutchinsn Hutchinson Encyclopedia CD Allow 3D icons to work with RISC OS
- 3.10 or later.
-
- !Internet TCP/IP Protocol Suite Fixes NFS access from task windows
- (works on RISC OS 2 with Desktop C),
- fixes Internet to work with ARM2as,
- fixes *RMKill of Internet crashing
- (works on RISC OS 2).
-
- !Jiglet 4Mation: Jiglet Allows Jiglet to run on RISC OS 3.
-
- !Jigsaw 4Mation: Jigsaw Allows Jigsaw to run on RISC OS 3.
-
- !NFSFiler TCP/IP Protocol Suite Fixes directory enumeration buffer
- overflows (works on RISC OS 2).
-
- !PCEm Acorn PC Emulator 1.60 Allows !PCEm to access hard disk
- partitions with a DOSDisc file type.
-
- !PCEmS Small PC Emulator 1.60 Allows !PCEmS to access hard disk
- partitions with a DOSDisc file type.
-
- !RISCiX RISC iX boot application Allows RISC iX to boot on RISC OS 3.
-
- SecureBoot RISC iX secure boot module Allows secure booting on RISC OS 3.
-
- pboot RISC iX discless boot file Allows discless booting on RISC OS 3.
- (in /tftpboot on RISC iX)
-
- Note that "works on RISC OS 2" means that the patch will solve the problem
- on RISC OS 2 as well as on RISC OS 3. However, !Patch itself will not run on
- RISC OS 2, so you will need to copy the software from the RISC OS 2 machine
- onto a floppy disc, patch it under RISC OS 3, and then move the patched
- version back onto the RISC OS 2 machine.
-
- If you need more information on any of the patches, use !Edit to read the
- patch definition files in the !Patch.Patches.Acorn directory.
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