[4511] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
FREEWARE: Fwd: Fixpack applicator QuickFix 1.1 released.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Saxton)
Fri Jan 1 16:47:58 1999
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 01 Jan 1999 16:01:00 -0500
From: triton@ibm.net (Jon Saxton)
Reply-To: triton@ibm.net (Jon Saxton)
Reply-to: triton@ibm.net (Jon Saxton)
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** Forwarding message from Jon Saxton <triton@ibm.net> on Mon, 14 Dec 1998
10:51:18 EST
I've been getting lots of e-mail asking for the location of the file. Here
is a my original announcement supplemented with the previously missing
information.
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QuickFix is another of those tools for applying OS/2 fixpacks without
obliging you to make a bunch of floppy disks. It differs from other
utilities of the genre in that it uses a diskette image extractor which does
a CRC verification before applying what could otherwise be junk from a bad
download to your perfectly-tuned and functional OS/2 system.
QuickFix is not specific to any particular fixpack.
Improvements over version 1.0 include:
1. Some sanity checks on directory names.
2. Now works with OS/2 3.0 as well as 4.0.
3. Handles all known variants of the fixtools distribution file name
(fixt*.exe, cs*.exe, cs*.dsk)
4. Much simpler user interface. Default values are now presented in
editable input fields. Explanations are generally shorter.
5. Re-use of the archive directory is now allowed (with appropriate
warnings).
6. Detects artefacts from prior fixpack application and (with user
approval) can clean up by doing a fake "commit".
File name: QF11.ZIP
Location: Hobbes (hobbes.nmsu.edu), currently in /pub/incoming
but eventually it should migrate to
/pub/os2/system/patches/fixpack (replacing QF10.ZIP).
Author: Jon Saxton <triton@ibm.net>
Credits: Trevor Helmsley (for DISKFP)
Alan Arnett (for DSKXTRCT)
Peter Flass (for W)
Albert Crosby (for CMDLINE)
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Jon Saxton <triton@ibm.net> OS/2 software developer
U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd
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Jon Saxton <triton@ibm.net> OS/2 software developer
U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd
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