Short: Patches small bug in Dpaint 4.6 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Dpaint 4.6 Patcher ------------------ (C) 1993 Pyxis Software What it fixes: -------------- Dpaint 4.6 has a bug in it which causes a "please insert volume dpxyzzy:" requestor to pop up when you try and change the font directory. If you're like me, and have trillions of fonts in different directories, it really makes life difficult. What the bug is: ---------------- Well, when EA released the 4.6 patch, the line of code was supposed to read: assign defer dpxyzzy: [other directory] the one they released says: assign deferdpxyzzy: [other directory] As you can no-doubt see, they forgot a space :-), a rather vital space actually... What the patch does: -------------------- It simply removes the "defer" from the line above, causing the string sent which DPaint sends to be the following: assign dpxyzzy: [other directory] Not a wonderful solution, but it works! How to use it: -------------- Easy, just tell it where the "Dpaint" file is, and away it goes: 1> DPPATCH DF0:DPAINT or 1> DPPATCH DH1:DPAINT4.6/DPAINT Will both patch the program properly. The patcher checks the filesize of the program as a sort of error control so the wrong version of the progam or any other program doesn't get patched. As a little footnote here, if you are fond of Executable file compressors like Imploder and Powerpacker, you CANNOT patch Dpaint with this program after it has been compressed, or even after it has been compressed, then re-extracted. The reason? Well, these programs remove symbol hunks, etc. from the file, and will change the filesize when saved... (see error checking above). You must patch the original unmodified file for this to work. The filesize should be 412512 bytes. Misc Other stuff: ----------------- We take no responsibility for this program, it works for US, but if I were you, I'd try it on a backup first... Pyxis Software is: ------------------ Neall Verheyde verheyde@sfu.ca - Computer Science Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Canada David Griffiths dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca - Television Broadcasting British Columbia Institute of Technology British Columbia, Canada Other Pyxis Utilities: ---------------------- ClockTweek - Helps correct periodic errors in the system clock. Purge2.0 - Deletes files in a way that they are "unrecoverable". MemWatch - Helps find program memory loss. NetUtils - ParNet/SerNet chat, and remote reboot. ReqInter - Reqtools.library interface for HiSoft BASIC. BlockMem - Removes faulty memory from memory list