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Offline TiredOLife

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #44 from previous page: June 02, 2011, 12:10:05 PM »
Thanks Franko, look forward to trying that.
 

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #45 on: June 02, 2011, 12:32:56 PM »
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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #46 on: June 02, 2011, 12:58:49 PM »
Sorry folks but just did a byte for byte check and a patch would be impossible... :(

Simple reason being, I had disassembled the original DirWork Ver 2.1 into it's 68k source code and then bug fixed and improved it then re-assembled it which of course results in every byte of code being changed. Therefore a "patch" would actually have to be the entire program being changed byte for byte... :(

So unless I can get hold of the original author (Chris Hames) and get permission from him to either redistribute DirWork for free or even the disassembled source code for others to compile themselves, then if you're going to use DirWork 2.1 then you'll have to use the original release and live with the fact it can't handle long file/path names... :(

Can't see any other way around this problem, which is a shame as it's really such a great program that is really only let down by it's inability to handle long file/ path names which cause it to freeze or crash... :(

If anyone knows if Chris Hames (Quasar Software, pretty sure he wrote PC-Task for the Amiga) is still around and can be contacted then please let me know as I'd love to at least ask him about this... :)
 

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #47 on: June 02, 2011, 01:33:49 PM »
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Sorry folks but just did a byte for byte check and a patch would be impossible... :(

Simple reason being, I had disassembled the original DirWork Ver 2.1 into it's 68k source code and then bug fixed and improved it then re-assembled it which of course results in every byte of code being changed. Therefore a "patch" would actually have to be the entire program being changed byte for byte... :(

So unless I can get hold of the original author (Chris Hames) and get permission from him to either redistribute DirWork for free or even the disassembled source code for others to compile themselves, then if you're going to use DirWork 2.1 then you'll have to use the original release and live with the fact it can't handle long file/path names... :(

Can't see any other way around this problem, which is a shame as it's really such a great program that is really only let down by it's inability to handle long file/ path names which cause it to freeze or crash... :(

If anyone knows if Chris Hames (Quasar Software, pretty sure he wrote PC-Task for the Amiga) is still around and can be contacted then please let me know as I'd love to at least ask him about this... :)

I have emailed Chris Hames not long ago. He is a good chap, I asked him to free PC-Task, and he did.

I have sent you a PM, if you are into it, I can give you his email address and then we may also have DirWork for free. :)
 

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2011, 01:44:03 PM »
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I have emailed Chris Hames not long ago. He is a good chap, I asked him to free PC-Task, and he did.

I have sent you a PM, if you are into it, I can give you his email address and then we may also have DirWork for free. :)

@ Guilliver

If you have the contact info for Chris Hames that would be great, as I'd love to contact him to see if he would allow me to distribute the "bug fixed" version I made of this fantastic program or just pass him the source code that fixes this wee problem... :)

Thanks

Franko
 

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2011, 02:28:55 PM »
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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #50 on: June 05, 2011, 12:24:03 AM »
Does anyone have a manual or a like for DirWork 2.1?

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Re: Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....
« Reply #51 on: June 05, 2011, 12:54:42 AM »
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