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Using BPPATCH
To use BPPATCH you must first put tags into your text files (batch files, configuration files
etc.) to indicate which BOOTP fields you want to replace. You then run BPPATCH and specify
the files to be patched on the command line. You can specify more than one file at a time.
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example if you want to patch the files START.BAT and PCTCP.INI, your command line is:
bppatch start.bat pctcp.ini
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place these commands in a second batch file, so you can run BPPATCH
before the second batch file is executed. For example, if you put all the
commands in a file called START.BAT, your AUTOEXEC.BAT file would be
as follows:
bppatch start.bat
start
Tags
All tags begin with the character sequence “#@” followed by a three character tag name.
Following the tag name are additional # characters used to specify the tag length. The total
tag length is counted from the first # character to the last # character. It is important to
make the tag large enough to contain all the characters that may be in the field. If the field
is smaller than the tag length, the field is padded with spaces. If the field is larger than the
tag length then it is truncated.
For definitions of tags that can be used with BPPATCH, view the file BPPATCH.TXT on the
MBA Utility Disk or in the MBA subdirectory on the EtherCD. The test file BPTEST.TXT (found
on the MBA Utility Disk) includes all tags. Use this file as an example, and for testing
BPPATCH on your system.
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This section lists some techniques for using MBA in TCP/IP environments.
U U s s i i n n g g M M e e m m o o r r y y M M a a n n a a g g e e r r s s
Currently the only supported memory manager is EMM386.
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If you are using EMM386 with Windows 3.x you must add the “/y” command line option. The
“/y” option allows you to specify a path for EMM386 after the PC has booted. If you try to run
Windows after booting from the network you get an “Invalid path for EMM386” message.
This is because Windows needs access to the EMM386 file and, since the PC was booted from
the network, the original file is no longer available. Using the “/y” option you can specify a
network path so Windows can access EMM386 from the network. For example:
device=emm386.exe /y=e:\dos\emm386.exe