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to: Stacy Smith
from: Preston Smith
date: 1994-10-24 22:27:54
subject: Watcom Patchs

Hello Stacy!

Friday October 21 1994 16:24, Stacy Smith wrote to Florin Birsan:

 SS> I was a little confused by Preston's statement as well, until I took a
 SS> look at the patch archives I ftp'ed from Watcom.  As it turns out, the
 SS> APPLYA.BAT files in both archives are identical...to make things more
 SS> confusing, it displays every filename as "being patched",
even when it is
 SS> not.  So while it appears it's patching the binaries, it's applying only
 SS> the patch files within the archive that is being used...C_A is the
 SS> binaries, CH_A is the help files.

ok - so this is the gospel?? 

I have decided to wait for the updated CD that WATCOM said they would send
to me as soon as it is printed - I have CH_A installed

seems that WATCOm created some unncecessary confusion

Preston

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