Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA From: ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: program to help WSTAR find overlays Message-ID: <1856@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 07:46:40 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1856 Posted: Wed Oct 2 07:46:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 05:30:09 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 29 Re PUBPATCH in finding WS overlays.. PUBPATCH will look to "root" disk same user, then "root" disk user 0, for .COM files but will NOT find overlays! (Had this problem with WS, Turbo Pascal, others.) Also, while within WS, you can't RUN programs not in your immediate user area because WS doesn't seem to use the BDOS calls to find files. So PUBPATCH won't be of much help in this case. I ended up keeping one copy of WS.COM in my "root" disk, A0, along with "original" copies of the required overlays. Then used DUPUSR (another public domain program .. copies a directory entry to another user area but NOT the program, saving MUCH disk space) to copy overlay file names to all required user areas. STATed them protected and invisible so the names wouldn't be in the way. Could then run WS from any disk any user, with NO increased disk usage. Worked fine, did the same with Turbo Pascal and a couple other programs that had associated data files. Yep, there is a WS patch program in the SIMTEL20 archives, and I think it IS named SETDRU.COM. Patches WS directly, as I recall, so WS is then smart enough to find its overlays at a selected "root" disk/user. A little more elegant than my DUPUSR kludge, but then I'd used DUPUSR for other things and kind of got in a rut. Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID