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From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is the program Patch2090?
Message-ID: <15962@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 14:33:25 GMT
References: <5660062@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bjc@pollux.UUCP ()
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275
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In article <5660062@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>Some friends of mine use an Amiga 2000HD in their work.  (They are in
>video.)  They have had some problems with the (Rodime 40MB) hard disk.
>The disk was giving lots of read errors.  They brought it back to the
(some deleted)
>My friends asked me to find out what this command does.  They are
>	Patch2090 V1.0 By: Khalid Aldoreri
>	Unable to find Devices.  Please reread Docs files.
>Naturally I don't have the docs files.  Can you (anybody) tell me what
>patch2090 does?  Where does it come from?  Is it safe?
>--


You can trust Khalid Aldoseri's work, folks.  Khalid is an outstanding
programmer who lives in Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf.  He writes many very
fine utilities for the Amiga, and he posts them on CompuServe, where he
is one of the most regular participants.  This patch, if I remember 
correctly, was to correct some contention when using oversize screens or
overscan.

Watch for Khalid's SCRIPIT program.  It has been released now, and provides
a scripting language (complete with AREXX port) that can do many of the
things AREXX can do, but without requiring an AREXX port in the program
being controlled.  It is quite a program.  And Khalid is quite a
programmer.

I might add that programming is Khalid's hobby.  He is involved in several
business ventures over there, such as selling electronics and the like.

Betty

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