TDouglas

Thanks for the head's up!  I was under the impression Leonardo had left the community some years ago   

I'm pretty sure they're just the initials of the fixpack team member preceding a comment.  LW would be Leonardo Watson for example (think I got his name right ... getting ready for work and haven't had my coffee yet).

For an example (from Setup-VCv21.tp2.patch in the BWFP)

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             +COPY_EXISTING ~FLAMENOR.EFF~  ~override~ //                (LW: identical in Fixpack)

I'm fairly confident about my going theory.  I've never worked on a project with other folks before, and didn't realize what I was looking at.

Sorry to bother you with it 

Quick question for skelltz ... in the bwfp patch section for NejE I keep seeing the following: "(LW: included in fixpack)".

ummm ... what does that mean?

Edit:  My guess is Leonardo leaving a note?  Sorry for being such an idiot    

Figured I'd best post some kind of update, considering the time things are taking.

Prior to the hard drive crash I was mostly just creating unix native copies of the BWP Fixpack (BWFP) patches, and not having a great time of it either.

Making the patches is simple enough (if time consuming), but trying to reverse engineer what the hell the BWFP was doing in the first place was a nightmare.  Another nightmare (as far as I'm concerned) is the fact I literally had no idea what most of them were even for

I had known (for months) that I was going to have to do a deep dive through the forums anyways, but kept putting it off.  It was going to be a hell of a project and I knew it.  After the crash, I've decided to remove my head from my backside and focus on the forums instead.  Little by little, I'm understanding what problems the patches were written to fix.  I've also discovered some of those "fixes" probably should have been handled  differently (I'm no modder or coder, but even a layman can see that on some of 'em).

Anyways, I'm still plugging away at things, but forum content has to take precedence for now.  I've got mountains of posts to go through, and tons of notes to take.  This is going to mean a serious delay to the project, but it's the best way forward.

Again, sorry for the endless delays 

Well, sadly, I've discovered why I was having all those off the wall problems with installation ... my hard drive was going bad.

The really annoying thing about that is that it's "smart" sensor kept claiming it was running fine   

Lost months worth of work due to that stupid thing. 

Have the computer itself up and running again, tho still have a fair bit of configuring to finish up.  Will try to get the game installed asap.

Sorry for the endless delays