Hello mark!

22 Jan 10 17:31, mark lewis wrote to Mike Tripp:

yes and no... the full instruction are available and i've manually followed them with a hex editor to patch the RA-BW door and also
easily found the proper places in other BBS BW doors... it didn't take
any time at all... the longest was probably waiting for an OS to boot
that allows one to directly hex edit the disk file (DOS is still
really good for this task ;))

I suspect that the Maximus doors were done later with a different/more recent compiler. The 3.2x door was released in '96 to support Maximus 3.0x...but I didn't find the magic strings in DOS or OS/2 EXEs for 3.1x (which I use) or 3.2x doors (which I tinkered with while Sean was having issues).

.\\ike

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Hello, Mike.

Tuesday January 19 2010 at 09:29, you wrote to me:

Yep, I've heard that rumor too...but didn't find the documented
problem byte sequence in any of my distribution door EXEs...3.1x or
3.2x versions, DOS or OS/2 flavors. If somebody has successfully
patched one, I'd sure like to know which one and a chance to
experiment with it.

Talk to Nancy's wizard; he's the one that successfully patched the 16-bit Telegard DOS EXE to work correctly (the one I have running on my board).

I believe you were having some type of file system corruption issues
with another program trying to access the messagebases simultaneously
in a non-shared manner...but I thought you got past that.

Nope, never did. Discovered it was a problem with OS/2 Warp 4.52's kernel; I could have backed down the board to Warp 4 and patched it, but I was too lazy and just switched BBS software. :P

Later,
Sean

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Unless Kevin has a Y2K-patched EXE for his BW door, it's not Y2K compliant.

Unless Kevin is running the Telegard door, there is probably not a Y2K-patched EXE for his BW door.

yes and no... the full instruction are available and i've manually followed them with a hex editor to patch the RA-BW door and also easily found the proper
places in other BBS BW doors... it didn't take any time at all... the longest was probably waiting for an OS to boot that allows one to directly hex edit the
disk file (DOS is still really good for this task ;))

)\/(ark


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Quoting Mike Tripp to mark lewis on 27 Jan 10 00:34:12 <=-

I saw that Mark had jumped in, so waited to see if that was helpful...

yes and no... the full instruction are available and i've manually followed them with a hex editor to patch the RA-BW door and also
easily found the proper places in other BBS BW doors... it didn't take
any time at all... the longest was probably waiting for an OS to boot
that allows one to directly hex edit the disk file (DOS is still
really good for this task ;))

I suspect that the Maximus doors were done later with a different/more recent compiler. The 3.2x door was released in '96 to support Maximus 3.0x...but I didn't find the magic strings in DOS or OS/2 EXEs for
3.1x (which I use) or 3.2x doors (which I tinkered with while Sean was having issues).

My wizard was guessing that a different compiler might have caused the
problem you were having in finding the sequence... I seem to remember
that the Maximus doors update was about the last thing that George did
do with BW. The other wonder he had (I think I'm stating this right)
was whether you were trying to run the fix on the .exe that contained
the install or the .exe that would run the door itself...

ttyl neb

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Hello Nancy!

29 Jan 10 15:10, Nancy Backus wrote to Mike Tripp:

My wizard was guessing that a different compiler might have caused the problem you were having in finding the sequence...

My guess also.

I seem to remember that the Maximus doors update was about the
last thing that George did do with BW.

My memory also.

The other wonder he had (I think I'm stating this right) was
whether you were trying to run the fix on the .exe that contained
the install or the .exe that would run the door itself...

I typically remove the install dirs/files once the install is complete, and I have multiple installations. I am searching the BWMAIL.EXE for DOS and/or BWMAIL2.EXE for OS/2 in the directory of each of those installations, which are
the same executables called from the menu by Maximus.

.\\ike

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