PMARC 2.00 to 2.02 bugfix/upgrade HEX patch!!!!
Johnathan Taylor
Crossposted in Fidonet CPMTECH and R25 only CPM conferences
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Greetings!
This little HEX file fixes PMARC2.00 handling of file attributes other
than
the RD only and SYS attributes that it always has handled ok.
All other attributes are now stripped from the filename as it's name is
included in an archive.
Also changed the 'feature' that annoyed some people of it excluding
existing
PMA/LZH/LZS/ARC/ARK archives from the wildcard search. Don't worry it'll
still
exclude the archive being created if it's all happening on the same
drive:-)
Fixed the faulty dictionary re-sizing on certain file sizes.
And lastly it fixes some faulty counter logic that would create bad
compressed
members (Complicated to explain the fault, it involved using an
uninitialised
byte of data to update some tables, which resulted in PMARC getting it's
statistics wrong under certain complex circumstances)
Anyway to apply it get mload.com
save of the few lines of hex to a file, say PMA202.HEX
get your copy of PMARC.COM (2.00) it must be in uncompressed form and not
POPCOM'd
and just enter the following line at the CPM prompt:-
MLOAD PMA202.COM=PMARC.COM,PMA202.HEX
PMA202.COM will be the new fixed version it will report "2.02" at sign-on
and when interogated by PMSET.COM utility.
That's it, sorry for the delay in getting this together.
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:01010F0032BD
:1209CB00110800B7ED52060C7EE67F772310F9F601C9B3
:1C0C3F003A7D29B73E0220023E08327F29AF32540CC36B0C5E1B733E1B32540C2E
:030C5B00C3992218
:03229600C3530C23
:0828830020322E30326A657428
:0000000000
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Doesn't look like much does it? It took many hours of disassembly and
tracing
to allow me to come up with that. As they say it's not the size that
count's;-)
I will post a pre-patched PMA202.COM as a CPM-L digest friendly UUE if
there's
a few requests for it:-)
Enjoy.
Johnathan.
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