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- DESCRIPTION
- -----------
-
- Second Sight version 2.1 has a nasty bug that will, in appropriate
- cirumstances, raise your callers' time limits to exponential heights,
- sometimes even reaching the limit of 255.
-
- This bug occurs when a caller has a lot of credited time. In my case,
- it's often because I've spent a lot of time chatting with the user. Then
- if the user uses a command 50/51 application, upon his return the amount
- of time that I spent chatting with him is ADDED to his time limit. This means
- that this amount of time was actually added TWICE -- once when we exited
- chat and once when we came back into Second Sight from the external
- application.
-
- This patch will simply prevent this problem. However, PLEASE MAKE A
- BACKUP OF SECOND SIGHT BEFORE USING THIS FIX. It should not have any
- negative effects on anything, and it works beautifully for me, but don't
- hold me liable if it ruins your only copy of Second Sight. And also, please
- only do this on Second Sight version 2.1. I have no idea if it'll work
- on other versions, or even if it will be needed in future versions.
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- Tools
- -----
- o Resedit
- OR
- o A file editor such as FEdit, Macsnoop, etc.
-
- o This text file
-
- Instructions
- ------------
- 1. Go into ResEdit or your file editor and with it, open your Second Sight
- application. In Resedit and most file editors, just choose "Open" from the
- file menu and find your Second Sight application.
- 2. RESEDIT: Double click on the line or icon which says "CODE". When you
- get a list, click on the line that says CODE ID=4, or (in Resedit 2.0 and
- beyond, has a 4 in the left column.) If you're using version 2.0 or later,
- go to the Resources menu and choose "Open using Hex editor." If you're using
- a prior version, go to the file menu and choose "Open General."
- FILE EDITOR: Set your file editor to edit the resource fork of the
- application.
- 3. RESEDIT: Choose "Find Hex" from the "Find" menu.
- FILE EDITOR: Find your "Find" command, and make sure it's set to hexadecimal
- searching.
- 4. In the field where it asks you what to find, type the following:
- 102DE48ED12D9D16
- Make sure you don't mistype it!
- 5. RESEDIT: When it finds that string, it will be selected. Re-Select ONLY
- THE FIRST EIGHT DIGITS! In other words, the entire sequence will be
- selected, but you ONLY want to select the part that says 102D E48E.
- FILE EDITOR: If the cursor is not positioned over the beginning of the
- sequence, position it there. If your file editor, instead of overwriting
- data, will insert data, be sure to follow the Resedit instructions for
- step 5.
- 6. Type the following:
- 70007000
- The end result should be that the 102D E48E was replaced by 7000 7000.
- 7. Save your work. Some file editors require that you unlock them before
- saving. Then quit, and your bug is fixed!
-
- If you have any questions, I can be reached at the following:
- Forest Hills BBS: 718-268-1240
- GEnie: P.L.COOPER
- America Online: Tommy6
-
- Just in case: I cannot be held responsible for any loss of data involved
- with installing this patch. Remember that changing a code resource is
- always risky. I can guarantee that this patch fixed the bug on my BBS. However,
- if there is even the smallest mistake made in these instructions, who knows
- what could happen.