Re: Question about configuring TO apps.

[foegelle@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Foegelle)]

In article <1993Dec15.233427.17209@coplex.com>,
Dan Crutcher <dcrutch@coplex.coplex.com> wrote:
>JGEN5131@URIACC.URI.EDU writes:

>If you have a block editor (Block Warden, for example), and have defined the 
>TO location as a ProDOS directory you can search on "/PATHNAME" (where 
>PATHNAME is as much as you recall of the current TO location path) in the 
>file "APLWORKS.SYS" and change it to a new pathname (be sure to change 
>the length byte just before it to the right number of the new pathname). 


Boy I need to hurry up and release my binary file editor.  It makes fixes like
this a breeze!  I've used it numerous times to futz with the pathname in 
Appleworks as I've moved things around.  Just a quick search and replace and
boom, there ya go!  I'm even considering attempting a pathname recognition 
code that you can use to tell it to hunt for pathnames, since the most useful
thing to use this for is patching programs to run on hard drives, etc.  Oh 
well, maybe I'll get back to it now that I've released Columns VGA for the 
IBM.  But probably not 'til the end of January...

Michael Foegelle

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