Date   : Wed, 02 Oct 1985 06:30:00-EDT
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA
Subject: Re: program to help WSTAR find overlays

Re PUBPATCH in finding WS overlays..

PUBPATCH will look to "root" disk same user, then "root" disk user 0, for
.COM files but will NOT find overlays!  (Had this problem with WS,
Turbo Pascal, others.)  Also, while within WS, you can't RUN programs
not in your immediate user area because WS doesn't seem to use the BDOS
calls to find files.  So PUBPATCH won't be of much help in this case.

I ended up keeping one copy of WS.COM in my "root" disk, A0, along with
"original" copies of the required overlays.  Then used DUPUSR (another
public domain program .. copies a directory entry to another user area
but NOT the program, saving MUCH disk space) to copy overlay file names
to all required user areas.  STATed them protected and invisible so the
names wouldn't be in the way.  Could then run WS from any disk any user,
with NO increased disk usage.

Worked fine, did the same with Turbo Pascal and a couple other programs
that had associated data files.

Yep, there is a WS patch program in the SIMTEL20 archives, and I think
it IS named SETDRU.COM.  Patches WS directly, as I recall, so WS is then smart
enough to find its overlays at a selected "root" disk/user.  A little more
elegant than my DUPUSR kludge, but then I'd used DUPUSR for other things
and kind of got in a rut.

Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID