
        6 March 1996

        To: TW Sysops
        From: Craig Healy

        Re: TW2MAINT.EXE

        This is a file designed to help minimize the Ship Records
        bug that has plagued the 2.0x Tradewars game.  It's
        designed to run after each player's use of the game.  The
        best way to do this is to add "TW2MAINT" to the line
        directly after the one that calls Tradewars in your .BAT
        file.  It takes only a few seconds to run, even on a slow
        386SX computer.

        It basically makes sure the players and ships are set the
        way the game should have them, not the way it actually
        does :).

        The code is a small part of the code in my EXTERN
        replacement program, and has been thoroughly tested over
        the past couple of years.  EXTERN still needs to be run
        as it does many things over and above what TW2MAINT does.

        Comments/suggestions to: craig.healy@chowda.com

