Cerberus Alpha: The Lettercase Issue and Finalizing

The issue of lettercase was really the last major hurdle that I had to jump over so I was a little anxious to get it done already. I decided to take a relatively simple approach; if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Since the intended use is for Windows 8, Cerberus Alpha assumes that the file-name format should be that used in Win 7 / Win 8. If it doesn't get success with that then it tries the other possibility. Technically, this doesn't account for every possible scenario so I still consider it flawed. Will the target program even work in windows if it is not the correct case format? I don't know, but Cerberus Alpha tries to make sure that it replaces with the correct lettering format when undoing the changes. I think that it should be possible to account for every permutation of case, but it would have been more involved than I wanted to code at the time.

I also worked to improve the success counter, but I made a couple mistakes and it didn't work. The program still worked, but it did not correctly report success and therefore did not reboot when finished. That could be really bad because if you try to install twice in a row you could lose your original utilman.exe or sethc.exe. The mistakes boiled down to not having whitespace in the if statement and an incorrect format trying to iterate the second success counter. If the copy command succeeds it does ((successA++)), but successB++ doesn't work on it's own line.

Following this I also fixed the menu screen so that it will appear correctly in either terminal. It is very simple in that it checks if $TERM is "rxvt" and then prints the menu accordingly.

Finally I completed a menu option for uninstalling the sethc.exe patch. I don't know why I didn't do this earlier, but there it is.

And that about wraps up the project. The only thing left to do really is to burn the final version to CD and get it tested on some real world cases.