JP Software
4OS2 2.0 rev C ==> 2.0 rev D Patch Documentation
April 4, 1994
Copyright 1994, JP Software Inc., All Rights Reserved. Published by JP
Software Inc., P.O. Box 1470, E. Arlington, MA 02174 USA, (617)
646-3975.
This file explains how to install the 4OS2 2.0 rev D patches.
To use the patch, you must have:
* JP Software's PATCH.EXE program. This program is in a separate
file, PATCH.ZIP on CompuServe, or 4DPATCH.ZIP on bulletin boards
and the Internet. [* See note below.]
* A copy of 4OS2 2.0 rev C. The simplest way to check your
revision level is to use the 4OS2 VER /R command. This command
will also show whether you are running the 16-bit version of 4OS2
("4OS2/16") or the 32-bit version ("4OS2/32"). You will need this
information to apply the proper revision D patch.
If you find you have rev A or B of 4OS2 2.0, you must download
additional patch files to update your current copy of 4OS2 to rev C
before you can apply this latest rev D patch. To update from rev A
to rev B you need the patch file 4O20B.ZIP; to update from rev B to
rev C you need 4O20C.ZIP. These files should be available from the
same place where you got this rev D file.
To use this patch, use the VER command to determine whether you are
running 4OS2/16 or 4OS2/32. Then copy the corresponding revision D
patch file to to the directory where your 4OS2 version 2.0 files are
stored. Copy 4O20D16.RTP for 4OS2/16, or 4O20D32.RTP for 4OS2/32.
(Note that the second character of each filename is the letter "oh", the
fourth character of each name is the digit zero.) Make sure JP
Software's PATCH.EXE is in the same directory, or in a directory on your
PATH, then enter the appropriate command:
patch 4o20d16 (for 4OS2/16)
patch 4o20d32 (for 4OS2/32)
(Don't worry about running the "wrong" patch by mistake. The PATCH
program won't patch your 4OS2 files unless the proper original file is
found.)
This patch converts 4OS2 2.0 rev C to version 2.0 rev D. It modifies
only 4OS2.EXE, all other files are unchanged from rev C. Branding (name
and serial number) information in your 4OS2.EXE file will be preserved
in the modified file.
If you want to test 4OS2.EXE to make sure the patch worked, restart your
4OS2 session, then use the VER /R command. This command will report
"4OS2 Revision C" (if the patch did not work) or "4OS2 Revision D" (if
it did work).
If you are short on disk space and receive a message that there is not
enough space to perform the patch, you can use a command like this to
reduce the disk space required:
patch /noundo 4o20d32
This will make recovery slightly more difficult in the unlikely event of
a power failure or similar problem during the patch process, but will
reduce the disk space required to perform the patch.
[* JP Software's PATCH.EXE is the version 1.10 patch program from the
.RTPatch patch software sold by PocketSoft Inc. If you have a copy of
PATCH.EXE version 1.10 or later from another company which also uses
.RTPatch to update its software, you can use it with JP Software
patches. However, we recommend that you do NOT use version 2.0 of
PATCH.EXE under OS/2. When PATCH.EXE 2.0 is used under OS/2 it patches
the files properly, but does not correctly update the dates and times of
the patched files.]
4OS2 version 2.0 revision D includes the following changes to version
2.0 revision C:
* Worked around an OS/2 problem which occasionally left directory
search handles open in 4OS2/32 when doing subdirectory processing
(e.g. GLOBAL, COPY /S, DIR /S, etc.); this could eventually cause
the system to run out of handles and stop.
* ECHOS will now reset the console output mode properly if
interrupted with a Ctrl-C.
* Fixed a problem with the FOR command in 4OS2/32 which prevented
processing of the items in the list if a file processing command
(eg DEL or COPY) was issued before the FOR.
* Fixed a problem with a GOTO inside a DO loop which branched back
and restarted the loop.
* Fixed MEMORY to correctly report the alias and environment block
sizes when these blocks were expanded beyond their initial
allocation.
* Fixed a problem with blank lines in a TEXT block.
* Fixed a problem with the %_CPU variable which caused some 486
systems to appear as Pentiums ("586").
* Fixed a problem with piping to %@SELECT if the pipe was empty.