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#PGS and old FReq

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#83759From: Richard S. Rose,M.D.Jan 3, 1993 10:35 PM

To All: Hello. I've been away from the Forum for a while. Happy holidays to all! Could someone help me out with a little problem. When I installed Pagestream v 2.2 on my 3000 I somehow was able to defeat the (new) Amiga standard file requester and make Pagestream display the old file requester that was standard under OS 1.3. I have had to reinstall OS 2.04 and I have reverted to the new file requesters again! I need the old requester because the new one will not allow some Pagestream macros to run. I cannot figure out how I accomplished this. There were some messages here regarding this trick. I did _not_ use FR_Bypass. Can anyone remember the discussions regarding this issue? Thanks, Rich

#83807From: Harry CallesisJan 4, 1993 11:38 AM

Richard – If I remember right, you had to edit the PgS executable and change the name of asl.library to something like asx.library. That makes PgS unable to load the 2.x requester and it defaults to the 1.3 (or its own, I forget exactly) file requester. Harry

#83839From: Richard S. Rose,M.D.Jan 4, 1993 9:36 PM

Harry, Bingo! Thanks very much. Now I remember! I modified the PgS executable entry for ASL.library to read A-L.library. Now I can get my 1.3 style file requesters again. 8) Rich

#83819From: Soft-Logik Tech SupportJan 4, 1993 3:08 PM

If you don't want the ASL file requester in PageStream, just remove ASL.library from your LIBS: directory. (Don't put it too far away, because many future Amiga programs will not have custom requesters.) If ASL.library has already been used in the current session, either reboot or flush the library from memory then run PageStream. It'll use the old requester. Michael Soft-Logik

#83842From: Richard S. Rose,M.D.Jan 4, 1993 9:46 PM

Michael Thanks for the quick response. If I remove ASL.library from LIBS: then other programs that want it can't get it. I have modified the PgS executable to make PgS look for A-L.library, which of course does not exist, so PgS then uses the 1.3 type of requester. I guess such a fix will work until PgS no longer contains routines to use alternatives to ASL.library, or until PgS can use ASL.library with its macros and the escape key. Rich

#83861From: Malcolm O'BrienJan 4, 1993 11:46 PM

Rich, I think you used a hex file editor (or disk editor) to change a byte so a call for the standard requester would fail and PgS would sub its own. Sound familiar? Malcolm

#83958From: Richard S. Rose,M.D.Jan 5, 1993 9:32 PM

Malcolm, Yep. I used NewZap to edit Pgs' call to ASL.library. Renamed it A-L.library. Thanks, Rich