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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: INFOCOM: Boot -> Dos disk util?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.152614.29352@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:26:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Sep3.152614.29352
- References: <1992Sep2.124849.202635@uctvax.uct.ac.za> <blasius.50.715520476@gmd.de>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <blasius.50.715520476@gmd.de> blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius) writes:
- [...]
- >- Patch an appropriate interpreter with a hex editor to point to the name
- > you gave to your data file. To find out, which interpreter works, copy
- > them one by one to the directory where your new data file is, rename the
- > data file to the name of the interpreter (.dat, of course), and try to
- > run it.
-
- The interpreters that I have seen have an undocumented switch (/G).
- This switch will tell the interpreter to load the data file following
- the switch. For example:
-
- C:\INFOCOM>ballyhoo /gzork3.dat
-
- However, some data files require certain interpreters.
- If you have your IC games an a hard drive, you can save disk
- space by having only one copy of each *type* of interpreter.
- For example, only one "L" interpreter, only one "6E" interpreter,
- etc. (BTW, "L" and "N" seem compatible), just as long as you
- use the /G switch.
-
- >- BTW, the data files are machine independent; a friend of mine told me he
- > runs Atari data files with a DOS interpreter.
- >
- >Hope it works for you, too!
- >
- >Volker
-
-
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