Hey andy, good to know that someone is hacking this Receiver - its well overdue for some serious updating.

regarding patching the Receiver.arf file, why not create a Windows utility that lets people drag and drop new files into the Receiver.arf file and have the utility create a new arf file with the new and/or updated files in it?

I can program in VB and could knock up such a program in a weekend - yes it would be something you'd distribute/let folks download and install themselves, but iot could keep backup copies of the .arf files before it updated them so you could go back.

I think arf files are basically compressed tar files? or similar?

In any case, It would be good to work with you as I'm getting my rio receiver this week and its something I'll be hacking with before too long so we may be able to pool our resources - I'm not a kernel hacker or anything like that although I can program in C and Unix and have been doing that for years, I don't run Linux at home either - but I have 2 hacked Tivos & 4 empegs - does that count?