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- CompSA v1.00 (25 March 1998)
- © David O'Shea 1998
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- Description:
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- CompSA is a program to patch files which don't run on the StrongARM due to
- the way in which they are compressed (those which you need to turn cache off
- to load but work ok if you turn the cache back on after loading). It will
- take files of type Absolute (FF8) or untyped files, and see if it thinks it
- can patch it. If so, it will modify the file (or a copy thereof) and attempt
- to make it work. It is by no means guaranteed to do so. In particular, files
- which were originally modules are unlikely to work, but these can be
- extracted manually by loading the file with cache off, then grabbing the
- module from memory (with !Zap, RMSave, or somesuch utility).
-
- This version supports two types of compression (with various families of
- those types) and others will be added as I work out how to patch them by
- hand.
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- In Use:
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- Just drag the file to be patched to the program icon, or to the text field,
- or type the filename in by hand. It will be copied to the second 'save as'
- field, and I recommend that you change this, unless the file is a copy. The
- program will try to warn you if it thinks it doesn't understand the
- compression, but there could be unforseen circumstances under which this
- might fail, so don't overwrite the original!
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- History:
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- v1.00 25 March 1998
- First version, two types of compression supported.
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- Contact:
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- David O'Shea (d.oshea@cs.ucc.ie)
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