Subj : Re: Pentium II patch for pascal
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : Scott Adams
Date : Mon Oct 06 2003 02:27 am

 -=> Quoting Ryan de Laplante to All <=-

 RdL> @MSGID: 1:229/1394.0 3f7f6550
 RdL> giving me Runtime error 200. I did some reading on the net and found
 RdL> out that pascal has some kind of timing bug that affects all programs
 RdL> written with it. Luckily there were patches available to patch EXE's.
 RdL> There were a couple different ones and I used the pent2.exe version.
 RdL> It worked great.  
 RdL> The trouble I'm having is that one of my doors (EZ-ROM) gives
 RdL> me the Runtime error 200 but the patch program won't work on it. The
 RdL> patch says that the executable is probably compressed. Does anyone
 RdL> know how to uncompress the executable so that I can apply the patch?
 RdL> -- No it's not compressed inside a zip/rar/aj file. If you put that
 RdL> same exe on a Pentium 166 it runs fine.  
 RdL> Thanks,

        It might be pklited to compress it so it can be acted on
        like the above.  I forget if there are decompressors
        for that stuff without being the author.  I've not
        done that sorta of thing in years.  I tend to use
        a old util WCOMP to figure out what language it was
        in and if it was compressed or not.

        Course it could be that the program actually has
        a RT 200 which does exist as a valid RT error :)




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