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Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:02:31 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Quick Fix

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
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> Is that the one from Chuck McKinnis, or something else ?

Jon Saxton. See below. V1.21 is on the Sept 2001 SCOUG CD. Only
gotcha is IBM changed fixtXXX.exe to cs_XXX.exe. Change it back and all
is OK.

Ray

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ÿ QUICKFIX 1.2 ÿ
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ÿ A utility for rapid, safe application of OS/2 fixpacks. ÿ
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ÿ Jon Saxton ÿ
ÿ 10-11-99 ÿ
ÿ ÿ
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Enclosed is a REXX script to make the application of OS/2 fixpacks easy.
Yes, this is yet another quick fix tool and the obvious question is
"Why?".

The critical issue is safety.

The main difference between this utility and most others in the genre is
that
QuickFix uses an image unpacking tool which performs CRC validation of
the
diskette images before applying what could otherwise be junk to your
finely-
tuned and previously functional OS/2 system. To me that seems a
worthwhile
contribution.

QuickFix was derived from an earlier REXX program, DISKFP, by Trevor
Hemsley
and full credit is due to Trevor for the concept. It was Trevor who
alerted
me to the danger of tools such as DIUNPACK which do no validation of the
diskette image and to the damage that a bad download could cause.

Meanwhile I had tried a diskette image extractor written by Alan Arnett
and
one of the items on Alan's list of planned features was CRC checking. I
harassed Alan a little and in July this year he released a version of
his
program with that feature implemented.

I have modified Trevor's program to use Alan's program as well as making
a
large number of usability enhancements. With Trevor's concurrence, this
program is being released under a new name.

Purely as a courtesy I have included Alan's DSKXTRCT.EXE in this
submission
but it is not my intention to post QuickFix updates just to include
later
versions of Alan's program. At the time of writing DSKXTR12.ZIP on
Hobbes is
Alan's official release and you should get subsequent versions of Alan's
program from his submissions.

Thanks to Peter Flass and Albert Crosby for their REXX code which I have
embedded in this program.

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