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- $VER: MakePatch_Manual v1.0 (11-Feb-93)
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- COPYRIGHT
-
- MakePatch and Patch'Em are released under the concept of public domain.
- The source code in assembly language is included, so feel free to change
- these tools and to add useful features.
-
-
- WHAT IS IT
-
- Beeing a programmer, I often had the following problem: I removed a
- little bug in one of my programs and now I had to resend the whole
- program/archive to my beta testers again, though I actually changed only 8
- byte.
-
- This has come to an end - using MakePatch. MakePatch scans the whole
- file for changed, inserted or removed byte and saves only these changes, so
- that only a very small pachfile will be created. This file contains all
- information for Patch'Em to patch the old version into the new one. This
- isn't limited to programs, you may use MakePatch/Patch'Em with all kinds of
- data, say graphics, sound, text or lharc-alike archives.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- First of all you have to copy the PTool.Library into your "LIBS:"-
- directory or MakePatch won't do anything. (If you already have
- PTool.Library installed in your system, use the version-command to find out
- which version is newer!)
-
- Then you should copy MakePatch itself somewhere into your commandpath,
- usually "C:".
-
-
- USAGE
-
- MakePatch gets all needed information throu' the commandline. If you
- call it with "?" as parameter, you'll get the well-known usage template.
-
- MakePatch recognizes the following keywords:
-
- Original/A - This is the path and name of the last version of the
- to-be-patched file. This parameter must be provided.
-
- NewVersion/A - This are path and name of the new version containing the
- changes. This parameter must be provided.
-
- PatchFile - Here you can choose a filename, MakePatch uses for storing
- the patch-informations. If you leave this parameter out,
- MakePatch will use the filename of the new version with
- ".ptch" appended.
-
- Usually the patch-generation is very fast, even with very large files.
- But in certain cases (especially if lots of changes are done) it may take
- hours. This process may be interrupted with CTRL/C at any time.
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- MakePatch works only under Kickstart V37.xxx or later. Additionally the
- PTool.Library is required.
-
-
- THE AUTHOR
-
- If you have any commends or questions for me, you may contact me under
- omne of the following addresses (e-mail preferred):
-
- Snail-Mail: Peter Simons E-Mail: simons@peti.GUN.de (Usenet)
- Europaring 20
- D-5300 Bonn 1 Voice: Tel. 0228 / 746061
- Germany
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