Short: OpenLib() looks in PROGDIR: and more. V1.3 Author: kessler@fim.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Kessler) Uploader: kessler fim uni-erlangen de (Thomas Kessler) Type: util/boot Version: 1.3 Replaces: util/boot/OpenLibEnh* Requires: OS2.0+ Architecture: m68k-amigaos OpenLibEnhancer OpenLibEnhancer NAME OpenLibEnhancer VERSION OpenLibEnhancer 1.3 by Thomas Kessler (14.11.95) DISCLAIMER Copyright ©1995 by Thomas Kessler, Sonnenstrasse 95, D-91564 Neuendettelsau, Germany. This program is FREEWARE. If you like it, just send me something ($$, email, Zorro-III cards, whatever-you-like) and you will become a registered user. You will receive every update for free via email as registered user. It is illegal to distribute this program on disks which cost more than US $5 per floppy disk, or more than US $20 per CD. This software is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event will the author be liable for direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages or data loss resulting from the use or application of this software. The entire risk as to the results and performance of this software is assumed by the user. SYNOPSIS OpenLibEnhancer NOPROGDIR/S,NOLIBS/S,NOCLASSES/S NOPROGDIR Do not search in PROGDIR: NOLIBS Do not search in PROGDIR:Libs/ NOCLASSES Do not search in PROGDIR:Classes/ Most users _won't_ need these switches. FUNCTION If a program opens a library then the ramlib-module of AmigaOS looks for it first in ROM and RAM, then in LIBS: and then in the current directory. But if you start a program which has its own library in its own directory by typing "dh1:owndir/myprogram" and the current directory is your "SYS:" partition, your program will not find the library (unless it searches it in this special place). If a program looks for a library with a given path, e.g. "Blubb:blubberlibs/blubber.library" and it does not find it there, OpenLibEnhancer will also become active. OpenLibEnhancer enhances the OpenLibrary() function by looking for your library in "PROGDIR:" "PROGDIR:Libs/" and even in "PROGDIR:Classes/" if the library could not be opened in the normal way. With OpenLibEnhancer there is no more need to type all these assigns any more if you got a new program and you just want to do a quick test without installing all the data. INPUTS None. Just put OpenLibEnhancer in your WBStartup-drawer or add it to your user-startup (recommended) and that's it. NOTE As the OpenLibrary() function is patched, your viruskiller may report an unknown vector. Only the OpenLibrary() function is patched, but everything should work also for those (poor) programs, which call OldOpenLibrary(), because OldOpenLibrary() does nothing else than calling OpenLibrary() with version 0. (That is the case with OS3.x, I don't know about earlier releases of the OS :-) Start OpenLibEnhancer in your user-startup (after ENV: exists) as it uses an environment-variable. HISTORY 1.0 (14.10.95) First (not really) public release. 1.1 (15.10.95) Fixed a very small bug which could lead to a crash in low-memory situations. Fixed PROGDIR: assign for WBStartup-programs. 1.2 (01.11.95) Added commandline configuration. Added libname-strip 1.3 (14.11.95) Added wb-support for use in WBStartup AUTHOR Thomas Kessler (kessler@fim.uni-erlangen.de)