Patching Configuration
The actual name of this format (if it has one) is unknown. It can be used for patching exectable files to reconfigure the directories they expect files to be found in or other things.
(The name of this page perhaps isn't very good; hopefully someone who knows a better name might rename it)
Description
The below description is guessed based on the only known file of this format; it may have errors in it. If someone knows things other than what is mentioned below, please fix it.
All numbers are in decimal.
This file is a plain text file. The header consists of five lines:
- Type (the only known type is
1) - Title
- Name of the file to be patched
- Size of the file to be patched
- Number of records
It then consists of a sequence of records of the following format:
- Name of field
- Zero-based offset in file to be patched
- Length of field
- Short description
- Long description with braces around it; it may contain line breaks, and each blank line should contain a dot by itself
When the file is then patched, the text being set is written at those locations padded by nulls. (It does not encode any length prefix or anything else like that.)
Software
- PC Wanderer (run
CONFIGUR WANDERERand then push F1 twice for some further information)
