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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                     Jan 18, 1990

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  SAY WHAT?
  PATCHING TURBO C (BAD???)


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Date:     01-16-90 (20:12)
To:       CHRIS RYAN
Subject:  SAY WHAT?
From:     RON KRITZMAN

You could only use LCTERM under DOS 2.11?
Running it under 3.whatever right now, and it worksjust dandy.

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Date:     01-18-90 (08:00)
To:       CHRIS RYAN
Subject:  PATCHING TURBO C (BAD???)
From:     GEORGE THEALL

GT>CR>PER ARTICLE IN *RAINBOW NEWS* OF JUNE '88 (VOL5,#4-6), PG. 57, BY CHRIS
GT>WALTHE
GT>...
GT>CR>THIS IS CONTENTS OF DEBUG FILE USED TO PATCH TURBO C. ALTHOUGH CHRIS DID
GT>CR>SAY THEY WERE FOR VER. 2.0, THEY DO WORK. I'VE BEEN USING THEM FOR ABOUT
GT>CR>A YEAR. HOWEVER, THAT WAS WITH CODEBLUE (/A/V/S/C/L) AND
GT>CR>***DOS 3.10A***.
GT>
GT>   These are for v1.5. I have ***SERIOUS*** doubts that these work
GT>properly on v2.0. Have you traced TC's program execution before patching
GT>to determine where incompatibilities existed or have you simply applied
GT>the patches blindly and observed that they work (more or less)? I mean,
GT>what reason do you have for patching those portions in TC.EXE?

   Well, I have this article in front of me now. The patches are for
TC.EXE v1.0, not v1.5 as I thought above.

   I also looked at TC.EXE v2.0 with DEBUG; you should do the same,
Chris. You'll see that by applying these patches which were not designed
for v2.0 you're changing a stack pointer, a counter, and a few other
things that would appear to have NOTHING to do with Rainbow
compatibility. Doing so is a ***BAD*** idea.

George
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