!!!DOS XL 2.30 patch Version 2.30p was a newer version to 2.30 to fix two problems. * In previous versions of DOS XL, if you initialized a disk from the menu, the disk would not boot unless the file MENU.COM was on the disk. To alleviate this problem, type Q to quit the menu. Then type INIT or INITDBL from the command processor. Note: everything on the menu can be done manually from the command processor. * If you have a multidrive system and you initialized a disk in a drive other than one, when booted, the disk will always come up with the number of the drive on which it was initialized. To prevent this problem, use D1: as the destination drive. The patch for DOS XL 2.30 to make it a 2.30p: {{{ OSS Disk Newsletter Fall 1986 Product News & Info DOS XL - New-found Bugs DOS XL Bugs and Fixes --------------------- BUG: The patch to convert version 2.30 to version 2.30p in our Spring 1984 newsletter didn't work. FIX: Run the following program and then use INIT with the "Write DOS.SYS Only" option to write out the patched DOS. Make sure that you don't have DOSXL.SYS (either .SUP or .XL version) active when you do this. 100 READ CNT:IF CNT=0 THEN END 110 READ START 120 FOR ADDR=START TO START+CNT-1 130 READ BYTE:POKE ADDR,BYTE 135 NEXT ADDR 140 GOTO 100 150 DATA 3,5481,32,1,21 160 DATA 29,5377,141,217,22,169,16 170 DATA 141,23,22,169,23,141,24,22 180 DATA 169,49,141,30,22,169,64,141 190 DATA 12,0,169,21,141,13,0,96 200 DATA 1,7425,112,0 BUG: INIT does not work if you use drive numbers 4 through 8. FIX: Run the following program: 10 OPEN #1,12,0,"D:INIT.COM" 20 FOR I=1 TO 116 : GET #1,C : NEXT I 30 PUT #1,ASC("9") : CLOSE #1 }}}