killtopaz

Short:        Replaces topaz8 font in system exes by XEN
Author:       Jean-François Fabre (jffabre@club-internet.fr)
Uploader:     Jean-François Fabre (jffabre club-internet fr)
Type:         util/wb
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This little hack allows to replace topaz font by XEN font
in the following system partition directories:

Prefs
System

This will allow you to remain compliant to the MagicWB standard even
in the oldest original Commodore programs.

Usage: Click on the "KillTopaz" icon.

This is a hack: the string "topaz.font" will be replaced by "XEN.font".
You can change the XEN font by another font, but you've got to keep the
name length below 11 characters (length of topaz.font) otherwise the
replacebin program (that I've written at work on UNIX in 10 minutes :),
lame source available on request) will not substitute the string.

Seems to work OK on all the programs I've tried except for:

CED: seems to work but crashes on exit!
HDToolBox: works but the text of the "New partition" gadget is trashed.


If you're afraid of losing your executables, backup the directories above first.
I'm not responsible of any damage caused by this piece of software.

You can revert to topaz by clicking on the "RestoreTopaz" icon. I hope there are
no hardcoded XEN.font strings, or else they'll be replaced by topaz.font.
Not very serious anyway.

To process one single file:

1> replacebin topaz.font XEN.font <file>

will replace topaz.font into XEN.font in the file <file>.
replacebin can be found in the KillTopaz archive.

Any comments are welcome.

Note: this program can replace ANY string in ANY binary, keeping the original
binary size.