NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/12642

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From: [e-mail] ( John Henders )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Distribution: tp
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Organization:  One of these days for sure
X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Subject: Re: how to install nn?
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[e-mail] (John Henders) writes:

>In <[e-mail]>, John Henders writes:

    Here's me following up my own article again. I got nn to work, and post.
This is posted from nn, so if you're reading it, I guess it all works.
    For my system, because I had $USR defined as a drive, rather than a file,
I had to go into the various nn* programs and use a hex editor to change
sme strings. In many places, there are strings like ${USR}lib\something
or ${NEWS}something\something else. By sheer good luck, there were 2 00
bytes after these strings, so I was able to add a backslash between the
variable and the rest of the string and still have a null terminating byte.
    This is important for running with Hermes, where variables leave off
the trailing backslash, as is usual with most environment variables.
    The one program that gave me trouble was buildact, which did not
have 2 00's, but fortunately, I was able to run it through a disassembler,
change the string, and reassemble it.( no one said this stuff was easy ;-)
    I will make my patched version available if there's enough demand.


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