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- ExamPatch is a little proggy I wrote in 10 minutes to fix a problem that
- MultiUser creates, but is not the fault of MultiUser. Many older programs,
- and many new ones too, do not like the new group/other protection bits
- specified in the 3.0 Includes. So, this program will fix the primarily
- affected function - Examine() - which will never return the group/other
- protection bits but rather the "standard" bits only. The program is only
- 344 bytes long, and the resident code uses 100 bytes (26 for the code
- itself, and the rest for text strings to identify the patch to
- virus-killers and vector-checkers). Just run ExamPatch in your
- startup-sequence or wherever, but be sure to run it ONLY ONCE as it cannot
- tell if it has patched Examine() before. (If you run it more that once it
- will still work, but will slow down the Examine() call and use more
- memory.) Enjoy; I hope this program is helpful. It fixed many headaches for
- me (quite a few programs I have fail if the group/other protection bits are
- used).
-
- - Todd Vierling
- Fido: 1:371/46
- Internet: Todd.Vierling@f46.n371.z1.fidonet.org
-