101% FIX for Test Drive 6 - DVN
[ TBK ] -- tbklair@hotmail.com

The Problem:  DIVINE's batch files were created on a UNIX system and have
the following problems:
1) No carriage returns (would be an easy fix, just open in EDIT and save)
2) WRONG SLASHES IN SETUP2.BAT!!  Cmon guys, we are targeting WinDOS
systems here.  Backslashes, not forward!

In addition, some of the Jpegs that the textures were compressed to had the
hidden attribute set, so when the batches used PKZIP to reconstruct the
original textures, it missed some!

And on top of this, the textures.dir in the filesystem for the London track
is 0 bytes!  No wonder it can't find the right textures!  DVN included this
file in the setup.zip but failed to put it in the right place, so then all
the other tracks would be screwed up afterwards.  Sigh....

THE FIX:

Use this zip instead of DVN's crap setup.zip... nuke theirs.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY USED DVN'S SETUP AND SETUP2, YOU MUST REINSTALL THE GAME
FROM SCRATCH!!!

I have fixed the slashes in DOS commands in Setup2.bat (PKZIP and DJPEG don't
care which slashes you use, so I left those).  The files now have proper
carriage returns.  I also added a command at the top of the first batch
that will remove all hidden/system/readonly attributes for all files in
the TD6 path.  Finally, the crap textures.dir and the textures for London
are put in the proper receptacle and replaced with good ones.

The Comments:  This was too damn easy to fix DIVINE.  If you're going to
rag on ORIGIN, shouldn't you make sure your own releases work 100% first?
Even the slightest amount of testing would have picked this up (textures
are just missing altogether while playing the game).  Also, the fact that
the batch files had the wrong slashes and no CR's make me think that they
went straight from a Unix box to the enduser with no testing in between...
I hope that's not the case, but please try to be more testing-oriented in
the future.  I hope the problem was that you stayed up extra-long hours
trying to get this release out and a tired packager missed a beat, not
because you're bad :-)

Signing off...

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