Subj : TPPATCH fails to recognise file?
To   : Dan Egli
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Oct 15 2001 02:50 pm

 DE> I was looking over the BBS archives the other day
 DE> (http://archives.thebbs.org) and found some files I wanted.
 DE> Downloaded them no prob. However, when I tried to RUN them, I
 DE> got the infamus RunTime 200 machine (This box is QUITE over
 DE> 200 Mhz). So I dug out the old TPPATCH.EXE file. Ran it, and
 DE> the result was that it said these were not TP7/BP7 files.

 DE> Does anyone know of any other way to fix that?

find the patch for TB6/BP6 and maybe even TP5/BP5... 7 isn't the only flavor 
out there...

 DE> Was there perhaps a similiar bug in Turbo C/Borland C written
 DE> programs? If not what do I do? Can I make these programs work?

if you can't locate a patch for them, do whatever you can to use CPU time and 
place a load on the machine to get it "slow" enough to run...

i've had some success by keeping on attempting to run problem programs like 
these... at some point, i "get lucky enough" for the calibration routine to 
cross the time boundry and give a non-zero value so the program will carry 
on...

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