CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET ("Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC") (12/02/87)
One mo' time... (The first time I have something general to contribute and it
STILL hasn't been posted back to me after 5 tries. Sigh. :-0 )
On 28-Oct-87, Daniel Berglund <FOP@SECTHF51.BITNET> posted a patch to PHONE
which turned on the TRANSCRIBE command. In his patch, he changed the pointer
for the PHONE command (synonym for DIAL command) to point to the TRANSCRIBE
routine. The patch was rather simple, but after testing it out, I decided to
add a little something to it. I went one better and changed the command name
from PHONE to TRANS. Seems to be working fine. So, for those of you intrepid
souls who would like it (and have VFE or can figure out the equivalent PATCH
commands) do the following (minus comments):
$ VFE PPHONE.EXE/WRITE ! Open special version write-enabled
36 ! Skip to block 36
LOCATE "PHONE" ! Just what it says (locates the string PHONE)
A ! Types block in ASCII
CHANGE 61,"TRANS" ! Change PHONE to TRANS (at block 36, offset 61)
A ! Shows results of change in ASCII
WRITE ! Save it to disk
EXIT ! Done. Back to DCL.
(For those of you who missed it, the guts of the original patch was:
$ COPY SYS$SYSTEM:PHONE.EXE PPHONE.EXE
$ PATCH PPHONE.EXE
DEPOSIT 46D0
2A49
EXIT
UPDATE
There was also a CLD file that went with it...
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