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Patch for INSTALL.EXE
Some of the 5 1/4 inch disks of our currently shipping products
were incorrectly serialized in manufacture so that the INSTALL
program crashes soon after invocation, just as the first
copyright screen is being painted. On color monitors, the user
gets a vertical stripe of colored characters. These symptoms are
100% reproducable - this is not a subtle problem - and occur ONLY on
5 1/4 inch disks, so don't go trying this patch for any old
install problem.
We don't expect that this problem affects many disks, perhaps
only 200 or so.
You may prefer to return the disk to Quarterdeck (attn: Stan
Young), for replacement, however it is possible to patch the disk
using DOS's DEBUG. Assuming you have this problem, the following
8-byte patch should get you running.
Here is the script you follow to debug:
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1. Make a copy of INSTALL.EXE somewhere on the hard disk, in
case the patch doesn't work.
2. Rename the INSTALL.EXE file on drive A: to INSTALL.XXX.
3. Run "DEBUG A:INSTALL.XXX"
4. At the "dash" prompt, type "D 700 L 4" and hit Enter. DEBUG
will return some numbers, the last of four of which will be
"30 30 30 30". (If these numbers don't show up, either you DON'T
have the problem or you have typed something wrong. Type "Q" to
exit and start again.)
5. If you got the "30's", type "E 700 80 00 E8 61 00 E8 28 00"
to the "dash" prompt.
6. After hitting the {Enter}, you will get the "dash" prompt
again. Type "W" and {Enter} to write out the change. And "Q" to
quit.
7. Rename INSTALL.XXX back to INSTALL.EXE, switch to drive A:
and type INSTALL. With any luck, you will be up and running.
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