About this patch…

This patch fixes a nasty bug in Mac OS 8.5 and 8.5.1 first discovered by Steve Jasik.

The manifestation of the bug is random tromping of memory, and sometimes it corrupts the heap (this happens when an application is launched). The problem is that some programmer did a Load Contents when he meant to do a Load Address.

This patch replaces the data $83A0 in the nlib resource ID=11 at offset $1968 with $3BA0, this inserting the correct command.

IMPORTANT: ALWAYS RUN THIS PATCHER ON A COPY OF YOUR SYSTEM FILE, NEVER ON THE ORIGINAL OR ON AN ACTIVE SYSTEM FILE!

Disclaimer: You use this patcher at your own risk. It did not inflict any damage on my system, but if it does on yours, then I am not to be made responsible.

Questions? 
mailto:h.prill@magnet.at
http://aardvark.magnet.at/software/

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This patch cannot work properly while virus detection software is running.  Please make sure that you have disabled any virus detectors before applying the patch.

This patch application was made with ResCompare, a free resource comparison and patch generation utility. ResCompare can be FTP’ed from most Macintosh archive sites. Send e-mail inquiries regarding ResCompare to Michael_Hecht@mac.sas.com.