At 14:11 25/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:
Shouldn't be too difficult to write a program which looks for and automatically patches SER or PAR to PFF I'd have thought to help users not confident of their abilities to do it in a binary editors (new QL saying: "PFF drivers do it with binary editors"!)
lbytes program into heap
use something like Turbo Toolkit's SEARCH_MEMORY to locate a "SER", "ser" or "Ser" string (think it's case sensitive)
poke the new string in at this address
redo until no more SER or PAR found
SEXEC the program to overwrite the original
It only becomes a problem if search and replace strings are different lengths I suppose
I'm sure there was a lot of such programs around 20 years ago to change MDV to FLP, though I can't remember if the strings patched were fixed or could be changed. And didn't Freddy Vachha release a program called Transfer Utility or some name like that, which did pretty much the same thing?
Just use the DP Editor, and see what is happening
RU the file, EQ to exchange
My query regarding the intensity this subject has is how many could it possibly help ?
The survey might shed a light on the subject.
Or is it just for the hell of the challenge ?
It could help all QL users as they need to replace printers !!
Yes, the survey MAY shed some light on the subject - however, what's the betting that we get no more than 40 replies.
If nothing else, it is generating a lot of discussion on the forum and some working together - this can't be a bad thing for keeping the QL alive
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