Brilliance and SetPatchMrgCop

[Matt_H]

Finally got a copy of Brilliance after all these years! The installer asks to copy an included program, SetPatchMrgCop, to C: and to run it in user-startup. It says it's a patch for bugs present in all versions of the OS.

Does anyone have a better idea of what it does and whether it's still necessary with OS 3.1 and SetPatch v43 (which were not available at the time Brilliance shipped)?

A quick hex read of the file shows that it's doing something with a .resource and graphics.library. If anyone has more experience with this tool please chime in

Would prefer not to have random patches running on my system - trying to keep this machine as a very clean 3.1 setup. I'll probably remove it from user-startup and run it at go-time for Brilliance.

[Matt_H]

Thanks Mike. I'm guessing the setpatchmrgcop.resource is what Brilliance tries to hook into to determine whether to throw up the nag requester. At least that would make it a system-friendly way to do so

Will see if I can find the v40 release notes for graphics.library to see if there are any obvious fixes of relevance to a paint program.