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- Patch for INSTALL.EXE
-
- Some of the 5 1/4 inch disks of our currently shipping products
- were incorrectly serialized in manufacture so that the INSTALL
- program crashes soon after invocation, just as the first
- copyright screen is being painted. On color monitors, the user
- gets a vertical stripe of colored characters. These symptoms are
- 100% reproducable - this is not a subtle problem - and occur ONLY on
- 5 1/4 inch disks, so don't go trying this patch for any old
- install problem.
-
- We don't expect that this problem affects many disks, perhaps
- only 200 or so.
-
- You may prefer to return the disk to Quarterdeck (attn: Stan
- Young), for replacement, however it is possible to patch the disk
- using DOS's DEBUG. Assuming you have this problem, the following
- 8-byte patch should get you running.
-
- Here is the script you follow to debug:
-
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-
- 1. Make a copy of INSTALL.EXE somewhere on the hard disk, in
- case the patch doesn't work.
-
- 2. Rename the INSTALL.EXE file on drive A: to INSTALL.XXX.
-
- 3. Run "DEBUG A:INSTALL.XXX"
-
- 4. At the "dash" prompt, type "D 700 L 4" and hit Enter. DEBUG
- will return some numbers, the last of four of which will be
- "30 30 30 30". (If these numbers don't show up, either you DON'T
- have the problem or you have typed something wrong. Type "Q" to
- exit and start again.)
-
- 5. If you got the "30's", type "E 700 80 00 E8 61 00 E8 28 00"
- to the "dash" prompt.
-
- 6. After hitting the {Enter}, you will get the "dash" prompt
- again. Type "W" and {Enter} to write out the change. And "Q" to
- quit.
-
- 7. Rename INSTALL.XXX back to INSTALL.EXE, switch to drive A:
- and type INSTALL. With any luck, you will be up and running.
-
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