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- Certain versions of SLIST and USERLIST have a problem that they
- do not work on ARCNET networks that have IO port set to 2E0.
-
- This is at least with some 2.15C and NW 386 versions of thos
- utilities. The reason for this is that the initialization
- routines within the utilities check for a display adapter
- in the PS/2 MCA machine at IO address 92E8. Since the IO bus
- in a standard PC does not see any difference between address
- 92E8 and 2E8, the ARCNET board at 2E8 (within the 2E0-2EF range)
- will be reset by the initialization routine.
-
- Below is a simple patch that will take care of this problem. I
- tested it on different machines and it seems to work ok. The
- special MCA screen will not work anymore I think. (I did not test
- that).
-
- At the DOS prompt type the following:
-
- C> REN SLIST.EXE SLIST.Q
- C> DEBUG SLIST.Q
- - S 100 6000 BA E8 9A
- xxxx:4BBC <-- remember the last part of this number
- - E 4BBC C3 <-- type here the same number, followed by C3
- - W
- Writing xxxx bytes
- - Q
- C> REN SLIST.Q SLIST.EXE
-
- The same procedure can be followed with USERLIST.EXE. The offset
- will have a different value (with me that was 5062).
-
- Bart Mellink, Cyco Automation, Holland, ID 75170,1156
-
-