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util/wb/killtopaz.lha

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Short:Replaces topaz8 font in system exes by XEN
Author: jffabre at club-internet.fr
Uploader:Jean-François Fabre (jffabre club-internet fr)
Type:util/wb
Architecture:m68k-amigaos
Date:1999-06-13
Download:util/wb/killtopaz.lha - View contents
Readme:util/wb/killtopaz.readme
Downloads:791

This little hack allows to replace topaz font by XEN font
in the following system partition directories:

Prefs
System

This will allow you to remain compliant to the MagicWB standard even
in the oldest original Commodore programs.

Usage: Click on the "KillTopaz" icon.

This is a hack: the string "topaz.font" will be replaced by "XEN.font".
You can change the XEN font by another font, but you've got to keep the
name length below 11 characters (length of topaz.font) otherwise the
replacebin program (that I've written at work on UNIX in 10 minutes :),
lame source available on request) will not substitute the string.

Seems to work OK on all the programs I've tried except for:

CED: seems to work but crashes on exit!
HDToolBox: works but the text of the "New partition" gadget is trashed.


If you're afraid of losing your executables, backup the directories above first.
I'm not responsible of any damage caused by this piece of software.

You can revert to topaz by clicking on the "RestoreTopaz" icon. I hope there are
no hardcoded XEN.font strings, or else they'll be replaced by topaz.font.
Not very serious anyway.

To process one single file:

1> replacebin topaz.font XEN.font <file>

will replace topaz.font into XEN.font in the file <file>.
replacebin can be found in the KillTopaz archive.

Any comments are welcome.

Note: this program can replace ANY string in ANY binary, keeping the original
binary size.


Contents of util/wb/killtopaz.lha
 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  364     650  56.0% -lh5- ec3c May 25  1999 KillTopaz/do_it
[generic]                   34      34 100.0% -lh0- b513 May 25  1999 KillTopaz/KillTopaz
[generic]                 1876    3079  60.9% -lh5- a28a May 25  1999 KillTopaz/KillTopaz.info
[generic]                  838    1609  52.1% -lh5- 1ee9 May 25  1999 KillTopaz/killtopaz.readme
[generic]                 1435    2955  48.6% -lh5- c1b6 May 25  1999 KillTopaz/killtopaz.readme.info
[generic]                 7069   11064  63.9% -lh5- f2fe May 25  1999 KillTopaz/replacebin
[generic]                   34      34 100.0% -lh0- cd0b May 25  1999 KillTopaz/RestoreTopaz
[generic]                 1884    3082  61.1% -lh5- 4eed May 25  1999 KillTopaz/RestoreTopaz.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         8 files   13534   22507  60.1%            Jun 13  1999
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