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- Artware Year 2000 Survival Kit - Installation Instructions for TimEd
- ====================================================================
-
- Revision 0003, released by Wilfried Brinkmann and Tobias Ernst.
-
- Eine deutsche Anleitung findet sich in INSTALL.DOK.
-
- 1. Preface
- ----------
-
- Please read ..\README.DOC before installing this patch!
-
- This directory contains the following files:
-
- INSTALL.DOC - You are reading it. :-)
- INSTALL.DOK - The german edition
- TIMED.ASM - Assembler source code for TIMED.COM, only for those that are
- interested in it.
- TIMED.COM - This program contains service routines for the patched DOS
- executable. It is the "launcher application" for the patched
- 16-bit DOS executable.
- TIMED.PSC - Patch script for Wilfried Brinkmann's PATCH program and the
- 16-bit DOS exeuctable. In addition to the binary code for the
- patches, the .PSC script files also contain some quite useful
- information for interested assembler programmers.
- TIM386.PSC - Patch script for the 32-bit DOS executable.
- TIMDEDP.PSC - Patch script for the OS/2 executable.
- TIMBUGS.DOC - List of bugs fixed by this patch.
- TIMBUGS.DOK - The german edition
-
-
- 2. Installing the patch for the 16-Bit DOS version (TIMED.EXE)
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- a) If this is the first time that you have applied a patch to TIMED.EXE,
- skip to step d).
-
- b) If you have previously installed the experimental patch for TimEd
- from ARTFIX02.ZIP, you must now delete the patched executable and
- replace it by an unmodified original TIMED.EXE executable such as
- that contained in TIM110.ZIP.
-
- c) If you have previously installed the ARTFIX TSR, you should now
- delete the ARTFIX.COM file and remove all references to ARTFIX.COM
- from your batch files.
-
- d) Get a DOS prompt (that is, open a DOS box if you are running
- Windows or OS/2) and change to the directory which containing the file
- TIMED.PSC. Start the "patch" program, which is located in the PATCH
- subdirectory, e..g. by typing "..\PATCH\PATCH".
-
- e) You will be asked for the name of the executable that you want to
- modfy. Enter timed.exe with its full path, for example
- "C:\MAILBOX\TIMED\TIMED.EXE". Confirm the "Info" dialog box that
- appears after the patch has been performed.
-
- f) After the patch is applied, the file "TIMED.EXE" is renamed to
- "TIMED.OVL", because the patched executable cannot be executed as a
- standalone application. Copy the file "TIMED.COM" (also in the
- directory containing this install.doc file) to the directory where
- "TIMED.OVL" resides by entering a command such as "COPY TIMED.COM
- C:\MAILBOX\TIMED\TIMED.COM".
-
- g) If your batch files, OS/2 or Windows desktop, PIF files or others
- contain explicit references to "TIMED.EXE", you will have to change
- them to refer to "TIMED.COM". However, if you have always invoked
- TimEd simply by typing "TIMED", nothing will change.
-
-
- 3. Installing the patch for the 32-Bit DOS version and/or the OS/2 version.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- a) These instructions only refer to "TIM386.EXE" and "TIMEDP.EXE". For
- instructions on patching "TIMED.EXE", see section 2.
-
- b) If you are running OS/2, open an OS/2 command window. If you are
- running Windows or DOS, open a DOS box. Change to the directory
- containing the files TIM386.PSC and TIMEDP.PSC.
-
- c) Start the patch program, which is located in the PATCH subdirectory of
- this archive. E.g., if you are running OS/2, type "..\PATCH\PATCHP".
- If you are running DOS or Windows, type "..\PATCH\PATCH".
-
- d) Enter the name of the executable that you want to modify, including
- full path name information. For example, type
- "C:\MAILBOX\TIMED\TIMEDP.EXE" or "C:\MAILBOX\TIMED\TIM386.EXE". (You
- can patch the DOS/386 executable with PATCHP and you can patch the
- OS/2 executable with PATCH, it doesn't matter which PATCH program you
- use). Confirm the "Info" dialog box that appears after the patch has
- been performed.
-
- e) If you want to patch both TIM386.EXE and TIMEDP.EXE, you have to
- repeat steps c) and d) and type in the "other" executable's name in
- step d).
-
- f) That's it! No other changes are required for the DOS/386 or OS/2
- executables!
-