Subj : Pentium II patch for pascal
To   : Ryan De Laplante
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Sun Oct 12 2003 05:56 pm

Hello Ryan,

Monday 06 October 2003 21:52, Ryan de Laplante wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

ET>> know is UNP. You can search internet with a search engine with a
ET>> string like "uncompress exe unp"

RdL> Thanks, I've downloaded UNP and it successfully uncompressed the EXE.
RdL> Next I tried running several different patches that are supposed to
RdL> fix the Runtime error 200 but none worked on that one particular
RdL> program. Someone else on this echo pointed me to something called
RdL> TP7P5FIX which is a TSR that you load before running a problematic
RdL> EXE. This worked!

I don't know this TP7TP5FIX TSR, so I don't know how it works.

You can look inside the exe file to determine if it was compiled with Borland 
Pascal or with Turbo Pascal: search the uncompressed exe file for the strings 
"Borland" and "Runtime error".
If both are not present inside the exe file, then it's not a TP/BP compiled 
program.
If both are present inside the exe file:
 - if the patch does work, the runtime error should be fixed.
 - if the patch doesn't work and the program still shows the runtime error 200, 
there's a good possibility that the program is compiled with non-standard 
startup code in the CRT unit or that the program is compiled with a different 
BP/TP version then the patch program is made for. Try other TP/BP patch 
programs for the runtime 200 error (for another TP version), look in the 
desciption that accompanies the patch program (if any).

Fwiw, I've three different patch programs to fix the runtime error 200 for 
TP/BP compiled programs:
PATCHDEL.EXE                5.104  19-07-1997  2:58
FIX_RUNT.COM                  554  02-06-1999 11:16
PATCH200.EXE                5.312  23-01-1998 15:38

There are no doubt more patch programs. Try searching internet.


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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