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Title: Help with SPATCH & SAS/C
Post by: Rabbi on November 20, 2009, 12:29:03 AM

Hi All,

     I'm having problems with the SPATCH utility that I d/led from Aminet.  It's not the real one, but a reverse-engineered one, I guess.  I installed the spatch.68k as spatch in my "c" directory (for commands) and then tried to update my workbench.library with the OS39 updates (2 of them) that I also d/led from Aminet.  This is what I typed into the CLI & what happened:

10.Workbench:> spatch -oram:new_workbench.library -pRAM:wblib.pch LIBS:workbench.library
spatch: wrong number of arguments
10.Workbench:> why
Last command failed because : wrong number of arguments
10.Workbench:>

     What am I doing wrong????


 - ALSO -

     My other problem is that I've got a legitimate copy of SAS/C ver. 6.50 that I bought years ago & has been pretty much sitting around going nowhere with it.

     Well, I tried to install it because it has SPATCH on it, but my disk # 2 is corrupt!  I can't remember where I bought it from, either.  Is there someplace where I can find it online?  All I really need is disk # 2 because all my other installation disks are OK.


- ONE LAST QUESTION -

     Why isn't the real SPATCH uploaded to Aminet anyways?  It clearly states in the SAS/C user manual in Chapter 10, page 292 that: "Note: You cannot distribute copies of scompare or any other utility, except spatch, that is included in the SAS/C Development System.  The patch file that you create using scompare and the spatch utility are both freely redistributable."

Title: Re: Help with SPATCH & SAS/C
Post by: MozzerFan on November 20, 2009, 01:25:23 AM

Have you tried the spatch version contained in this archive http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/Spatcher1_0

Title: Re: Help with SPATCH & SAS/C
Post by: Rabbi on November 22, 2009, 06:46:23 PM

I found SPATCH on the 6.51 floppy disk upgrade with the rest of my SAS/C 6.50 disks & manuals.  I installed that into my "C" directory on Workbench & then it worked as it should.  The Aminet 68k version of that reverse-engineered clone of SPATCH is not working as it should.

Title: Re: Help with SPATCH & SAS/C
Post by: MozzerFan on November 22, 2009, 07:27:53 PM

The version I mentioned in my earlier post also does work. Tested it myself when I patched workbench.library.
 
I couldn't get the spatch clone on aminet to work either.