ml>> v1.46 was released on April 1, 1997... v1.46.pl1
 ml>> patch file was released two days later on April
 ml>> 3, 1997... all were hatched in the FASTECHO FDN...
 ml>> BUPD124A.RAR is the released archive containing
 ml>> the patching program needed to apply the
 ml>> distributed patch...

 BB> Found it on my own system!!!! sheesh!

BTDT-GTTS %*)

 ml>> all are available from me if needed... my POTS line is
"down" at
 ml>> this time, though... either FREQ via fido protocols over telnet
 ml>> or visit my web or ftp site and grab them that way... the
 ml>> pipeline is not very large so be warned ahead of time...

 BB> No problems mark, when I ran it on the update I have here I
 BB> get:
 BB> fastecho.exe: No such file or directory (no problem)

 BB> BUPDATE: bad file length of source 'fastec16.exe' Hmm, this
 BB> was a fresh extracted file which I had to use the -i switch to
 BB> ignore time!!!

hunh? -i switch?

[time passes]

ahhh... that's a switch for the patcher... ok...

 BB> fastech2.exe: No such file or directory (no problem)
 BB> BUPDATE: sum check failed 'areafix.hlp' (no problem _ edited
 BB> the original)

 BB> My version of BUPD124A.RAR is dated 17/July/98

sounds like the archive got restamped from FTP or something... possibly
even by someone updating the archive comment or similar... here's the specs
on the one i have...

BUPD124A.RAR, 16736 bytes  06-22-1994

it was delivered here 09-29-1997 and contains the following...

BUPDATE  DOC     2391 06/22/94 12:45     5857  BEST
BUPDATE  EXE    13835 12/19/93 02:42    24326  BEST

the first number is the compressed size and the second is the actual
uncompressed size...

 BB> Argh!! nothing is ever simple!!

wierd... very wierd... i'll admit, its been a long time since i applied the
patches... AIR, i had installed the originals and then just ran the patch
program with the patch file a few days later...

so, did you get the patches all done or do you need someone to email the
final .EXEs to you? i've all of them here...

)\/(ark