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- Short: Patches small bug in Dpaint 4.6
- uploader: dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca
-
- Dpaint 4.6 Patcher
- ------------------
- (C) 1993 Pyxis Software
-
- What it fixes:
- --------------
- Dpaint 4.6 has a bug in it which causes a "please insert volume dpxyzzy:"
- requestor to pop up when you try and change the font directory. If you're
- like me, and have trillions of fonts in different directories, it really
- makes life difficult.
-
-
- What the bug is:
- ----------------
- Well, when EA released the 4.6 patch, the line of code was supposed to
- read:
-
- assign defer dpxyzzy: [other directory]
-
- the one they released says:
-
- assign deferdpxyzzy: [other directory]
-
- As you can no-doubt see, they forgot a space :-), a rather vital space
- actually...
-
-
- What the patch does:
- --------------------
- It simply removes the "defer" from the line above, causing the string sent
- which DPaint sends to be the following:
-
- assign dpxyzzy: [other directory]
-
- Not a wonderful solution, but it works!
-
-
- How to use it:
- --------------
- Easy, just tell it where the "Dpaint" file is, and away it goes:
-
- 1> DPPATCH DF0:DPAINT
-
- or
-
- 1> DPPATCH DH1:DPAINT4.6/DPAINT
-
- Will both patch the program properly. The patcher checks the filesize of
- the program as a sort of error control so the wrong version of the progam
- or any other program doesn't get patched.
-
- As a little footnote here, if you are fond of Executable file compressors
- like Imploder and Powerpacker, you CANNOT patch Dpaint with this program
- after it has been compressed, or even after it has been compressed, then
- re-extracted. The reason? Well, these programs remove symbol hunks, etc.
- from the file, and will change the filesize when saved... (see error
- checking above). You must patch the original unmodified file for this to
- work. The filesize should be 412512 bytes.
-
-
- Misc Other stuff:
- -----------------
- We take no responsibility for this program, it works for US, but if I were
- you, I'd try it on a backup first...
-
-
- Pyxis Software is:
- ------------------
-
- Neall Verheyde verheyde@sfu.ca
- - Computer Science
- Simon Fraser University
- British Columbia, Canada
-
- David Griffiths dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca
- - Television Broadcasting
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
- British Columbia, Canada
-
-
- Other Pyxis Utilities:
- ----------------------
-
- ClockTweek - Helps correct periodic errors in the system clock.
-
- Purge2.0 - Deletes files in a way that they are "unrecoverable".
-
- MemWatch - Helps find program memory loss.
-
- NetUtils - ParNet/SerNet chat, and remote reboot.
-
- ReqInter - Reqtools.library interface for HiSoft BASIC.
-
- BlockMem - Removes faulty memory from memory list
-