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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Patching uucico to WINDOWS 7 on Microport 2.2
Message-ID: <2772@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 22:09:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 22:09:51 1987
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References: <122@ddsw1.UUCP> <1614@stb.UUCP> <129@ddsw1.UUCP>
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As quoted from <129@ddsw1.UUCP> by karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger):
+---------------
| In article <1614@stb.UUCP>, michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
| > In article <122@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
| > >Question: Why use DOS at all, and not 'patch'? 
| > Better question: Why not use ADB? It can, quite nicely, patch executables
| > (striped or unstripped), text files, inodes, superblocks, etc.
| The reason? Microport doesn't include ADB with the system, thus you have no
| choice in that matter at ALL!
+---------------

Even if it did, you'd lose.  System V adb doesn't seem to be able to handle
anything but COFF executables WITH SYMBOL TABLES.  (Without a symbol table,
it seems to blow up on a $c, at least on our system.)

This is a lossage.  On the other hand, it forced me to put together a good
binary editor.  (On the other hand, there's quite a few of these floating
around the net....)

++Brandon
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