PRODUCT : Brief NUMBER : 1047 VERSION : 3.x OS : DOS DATE : October 19, 1993 PAGE : 1/2 TITLE : Using Brief with a Gateway 2000 DX/2 66 MHz. The following patch is a workaround for the problem of running Brief on a Gateway 2000 486DX/2 66mhx computer. There is a conflict over use of the DOS Interprocess Communication Area. The patch will disable Brief's use of this area. It should be noted that this will disable Brief's ability to notify the user he has multiple copies of Brief loaded. Also the inq_level() macro and anything using it will not function corrrectly. The inq_level macro is not used by any of Brief's default macros. All other areas of Brief will still function as designed. To apply this patch you will need a copy of the DOS Debug program. Be sure to make back up your B.exe file. The debug patch is as follows: 1. Copy B.EXE to something without a .EXE extension (i.e. B.DAT). This is so debug will treat B.EXE as a data file not a program. 2. Load debug with the file to patch (i.e. debug B.DAT). 3. Search the code segment for the word sequence F0 04 00 00 using the following debug command: -s cs:0 ffff F0 04 00 00 4. Debug will respond with an offset, for example: 12A4:0FB4. The offset is the last four digits after the colon ( 0FB4 in the example above ). 5. Modify the first two bytes (F0,04) at the offset returned to be NULL. Using the debug commands: (The example is using 1234 as offset, you will use the value returned by the step 4.) -e 0FB4 0 -e 0FB5 0 5. Save the patched file using the debug commands: PRODUCT : Brief NUMBER : 1047 VERSION : 3.x OS : DOS DATE : October 19, 1993 PAGE : 2/2 TITLE : Using Brief with a Gateway 2000 DX/2 66 MHz. -w -q 6. Rename the file to something with a .exe extension and test. 7. If everything tests OK, copy your patch file to B.exe. If you had any difficulties running your patched copy of Brief delete it and try again. If you still have difficulties, contact Borland Technical Support. DISCLAIMER: You have the right to use this technical information subject to the terms of the No-Nonsense License Statement that you received with the Borland product to which this information pertains.