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Subject: Re: Chessmaster Website Finally Restored!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:34:14 07/16/01

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On July 16, 2001 at 19:32:51, John Hatcher wrote:

>On July 16, 2001 at 19:29:45, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On July 16, 2001 at 19:26:18, John Hatcher wrote:
>>
>>>On July 16, 2001 at 19:22:01, John Hatcher wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 16, 2001 at 17:48:31, John Merlino wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 16, 2001 at 17:39:37, John Hatcher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>After applying the 1.03 patch, the "About Chessmaster" option in the Help menu
>>>>>>still reads "V. 1.02"  Just an oversight, or does it indicate that the patch
>>>>>>failed?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>John
>>>>>
>>>>>Nope, it should definitely read 1.0.3. What is the date and time of your
>>>>>Chessmaster.EXE file?
>>>>>
>>>>>jm
>>>>
>>>>John,
>>>>
>>>>This is really odd.  I copied the v.1.03 patch to my Chessmaster8000 directory,
>>>>ran it; and it appeared to process the patch without a problem.  But my
>>>>Chessmaster.exe file is dated 3/9/01 and TheKing.exe is dated 3/19/01.  And the
>>>>"About" screen stills reads V 1.02.
>>>>
>>>>Anybody else have this happen?
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>John
>>>
>>>To John Merlino,
>>>
>>>Some additional info:
>>>
>>>The patch file name is cm8k.103.exe, and the fie size is 1.15 MB.  Could the
>>>link on the web page be incorrect?
>>>
>>>JOHN
>>
>>The file name should be cm8k103.exe (did you make a typo in the name above?),
>>and the size should be (specifically) 1,213,597 bytes.
>>
>>jm
>
>Yes, that was a small typo, and the file size is identical.  Guess I'll have to
>re-install.  Thanks John.
>
>JOHN

My only concern is how your TheKing.EXE file came to be dated 3/19 (or was that
a typo also?). Did you try using TheKing in a different GUI, going through that
whole file renaming business, and then not restore the original TheKing file?

jm



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