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from: David Durgee
date: 1996-11-21 09:23:16
subject: patching DeScribe FF upgrade

I recently paid to receive the DeScribe Frequent Flyer Upgrade to the
Voyager CD only to find that the upgrade will not function on a ZipStream
compressed drive as the prior release does.  I have attempted to get a
response from DeScribe on correcting this, but they refuse to correct it.
 
Has anyone here run into the same situation and developed a patch to deal
with it?  I'm not a PC programmer, but if no one else has done so or is
willing to do so I will attempt to track this down myself if someone can
point me to freeware/shareware/trialware appropriate to such debugging.
 
The FFU apears to perform some sort of query about the type of drive it is
executing from and returning an error if it detects what it thinks to be a
network drive.  I suspect the patch to correct this will be to replace the
code section testing the results of this test with NOPS.
 
Can anyone here help in this matter?  Once it is accomplished I intend to
provide the results to DeScribe to be made available as a fix to the FFU.
 
Dave

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