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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: LoadWB on April 22, 2010, 04:24:27 AM
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I have RAWBInfo in SYS:WBStartup. The rawbinfo_patch program completes successfully, but here are my results:
12.Hawking:WBStartup> list RAWB#?
RAWBinfo_new 50720 ----rwed Today 23:13:07
RAWBinfo_new.info 7530 ----rwed Today 23:13:07
rawbinfo 50720 ----rwed 30-Mar-01 15:23:36
rawbinfo.info 7530 ----rw-d Today 23:19:09
4 files - 120 blocks used
12.Hawking:WBStartup> version full file rawbinfo
RAWBInfo 1.28 (03/30/2001)
Written by Stephan Rupprecht
12.Hawking:WBStartup> version full file rawbinfo_new
RAWBInfo 1.28 (03/30/2001)
Written by Stephan Rupprecht
Notice same version, same file sizes. Docs say it should report v1.35 and a size of 53744. Anybody have any ideas?
(In reference to my questions about compatibility with other utilities, following the installation documentation clearly references disabling PowerIcons and IconBeFast.)
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Okay, I took the plunge and cold-booted the system. After crashing a few times on boot-up because I did not remember PowerIcons was in my u-s, I have a working installation of AfA OS. Apprently the patch really was sucessful as 32-bit icons work in RAWBinfo, even though the version does not seem to jive with the docs.
Now a question comes to mind: what and where is RAWBinfo v1.35?
Additionally, I am apparently having difficulties selecting skins. I will play with that a little more.
Lastly, in regards to the installer. It installed the afa_prefs and ttf_manager programs but not the icons. I copied them over manually and un-snapshotted them. All looks well, and I am very happy with the icon system (yeah, form-over-function wins my heart in this regard!)
Thanks for all your hard work, Bernd!
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If you want I can send you my own v1.35 Rawbinfo mate.
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Thanks, PM sent.
I found reference to 1.35 at the Unofficial Boing Bag 3 listing, but not at Stephen Ruprecht's website, which shows 1.18b. This is also listed as the latest version at BB3, whereas 3.9 is shown to contain 1.35. Right over my head. I have BB2 installed, so this is interesting. I will check my 1200 and 2000 installations to see what version they have as well.
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The compulsion against boredom often leads to doing things the long or hard way, or sometimes both. Rather than boot up my 1200 or 2000, I decided to take a look at the mysterious Boing Bag 2 update and the AmigaOS-Update. 7-Zip opens the file easily, and even opens the Update file, but extraction requires a password.
A quick Yahoo! search turns up that it is indeed password-protected, though it can be found using myriad password recovery tools. Also mentioned is that the updater has a look at a few files on the 3.9 CD to dig up a password. This lead me to do some extremely rudimentary sleuthing.
A couple of passes of free recovery tools turned up nothing (trials are limited.) I looked at the Installer to see the reference to c/Updater. I dumped c/Updater to a hex editor to see the references to the media files, but also a syntax help.
Executing c/Updater ? returns two arguments: updatefile/a targetdir/a. So me brain turns just a little bit, puts my original 3.9 CD in the drive (yes, I did that with my brain,) and works up this command
c/Updater RAM:BoingBag3.9-2/AmigaOS-Update RAM:BB2
And voila. A dump of the Boing Bag 2 AmigaOS-Update file, including the elusive RAWBinfo v1.35.
Scout reports my system at BB2, but obviously something screwy has happened along the way. Maybe as a result of having the same installation move with me all the way from 1.3 through 2.04, 3.1, 3.5, and now landing on 3.9. *sigh* Anyway, makes me wonder how many other files are not up to BB2 level.
Sometime when the groove strikes me I will work up a quick check against the BB2 extract and my existing files to look for differences in versions.
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Try as I might I cannot get this library to patch, the one I get in bb3 has the size but is 1.36, and on aminet is 1.18. Does anyone have it or the patched one?