As some of us have been eager for the new version, I personally found it tiresome to manually download all the hotfixes.

I wrote a little perl script that automates the process for me, that I figured I could share.

You have to do a little tweaking of the hotfix file.

It basically takes lines in the format of

ADD SVC_POS\some_file http:\\some_file_download checksum

and proceeds to download the hotfixes and setup the folders for xpcreate

I effectively took the hotfix list from http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=22266

and modified some of the lines to keep everything in the above format.

Anyways, here's a zip. feel free to modify the perl script or hotfix list.

- Required files:

perl - http://www.activestate.com/

wget - http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Enjoy,

NotVeryNice

2k.rar

Thanks for that, NotVeryNice. I suspect that having to install Active Perl scared off a few of the potential users. As soon as the next version is released, I hope this becomes a mute point ...