Subj : Pentium II patch for pascal
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : Dan Egli
Date : Thu Oct 09 2003 05:21 pm

> Hi,

> I operate a BBS and found that a handful of my door games were giving
> me Runtime error 200. I did some reading on the net and found out that pascal
>has some kind of timing bug that affects all programs written with it. Luckily
>there were patches available to patch EXE's. There were a couple different one
> and I used the pent2.exe version. It worked great.

> The trouble I'm having is that one of my doors (EZ-ROM) gives me the
> Runtime error 200 but the patch program won't work on it. The patch says that
> the executable is probably compressed. Does anyone know how to uncompress the
> executable so that I can apply the patch? -- No it's not compressed inside a
> zip/rar/aj file. If you put that same exe on a Pentium 166 it runs fine.



They're talking about compresion like pklite. Find a copy uf unp.exe somewhere. 
I'd be willing to bet it was compressed with unp. Either that or pklite.

-+- Dan

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