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From: mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: ARCHIVE patch
Message-ID: <8802090447.AA01823@emx.utexas.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 04:47:23 GMT
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The old ARCHIVE patch (aka ARCHIVE.ASM) had a bug which caused
copies to diskettes with 'removeable media' checking to report
BDOS DISK R/O errors.  Isaac Salzman came out with a one-byte
simple patch to fix the problem.  Unfortunately, it was TO
simple.  It disabled completely the disk-change checking in the
BDOS.

Did anyone ever come up with a better fix for this problem?
(Apparently clearing the archive bit was NOT updating the
directory checksum used by the disk-change check routine.)
I tried substituting the similar patch out of BBACK622.LBR
(called ARCH.ASM), but it seems to have a different problem.

1. Create a file FOO.BAR
2. Set the ARCHIVE bit
3. Edit FOO.BAR 
4. Examine the directory.
   The *new* file FOO.BAR has the
   ARCHIVE bit set, but the old file
   location (now FOO.BAK) has been 
   cleared.

Any suggestions (before I start disassembling more of BDOS)?

					tnx