Date : Fri, 27 Apr 1984 10:32:14-PST (Fri)
From : ihnp4!ihuxx!ignatz@Ucb-Vax.ARPA
Subject: Ha, Ha, gee, you're sure funny, MicroPro...
I just received my WordStar and MailMerge 3.30 updates from MicroPro
for my Osborne-1. In a not unreasonable assumption, they decided
on distribution to put those line status flags in column 80. Trouble
is, the O-1 with the screenpack goes all the way to column 108.
Now, in the old 3.0 WordStar, I'd patched the value to move them
out of the way, but this is a new ball game--the old patcher is gone
from the install, and the addresses are different. So, in a kind of
desultory, not-expecting-success kind of way, I decided to poke at
the bottom of the WordStar disk image with DUU and see if I could
recognize the patch area; but I was auto-incrementing, and went just
two sectors too far, and fell into the wsovly1.ovr overlay. And
guess what I saw there...
00 C300000D 0A434F50 59524947 48542028 *C....COPYRIGHT (*
10 43292031 3938332C 204D6963 726F5072 *C) 1983, MicroPr*
20 6F20496E 7465726E 6174696F 6E616C20 *o International *
30 436F7270 6F726174 696F6E2E 0D0A416C *Corporation...Al*
40 6C207269 67687473 20726573 65727665 *l rights reserve*
50 642E0D0A 0A576F72 64537461 72207265 *d....WordStar re*
60 6C656173 6520332E 33302020 6F766572 *lease 3.30 over*
70 6C617920 66696C65 206E756D 62657220 *lay file number *
+
G=17:01, T=7, S=26, PS=25
00 312E0D0A 1A4E4F53 45592C20 4152454E *1....NOSEY, AREN*
10 27542059 4f553f00 00000000 00000000 *'T YOU?.........*
20 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
30 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
40 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
50 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
60 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
70 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
Cute.
Dave Ihnat
ihuxx!ignatz