Subj : Pentium II patch for pascal
To   : Ryan De Laplante
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Sun Oct 12 2003 06:34 pm

Hello Ryan,

Saturday 11 October 2003 19:53, Ryan de Laplante wrote to Dan Egli:

RdL> I've already tried using unp, it claims it uncompresses it, the patch
RdL> claims it worked but the program still doesn't run. I guess it was
RdL> compressed with pklite.

UNP shows what was its compressor, you should not be guessing. :)

C:\DOS>unp alter1.exe

So I ran UNP on a compressed exe file, just as an example:

UNP 4.10 Executable file restore utility, written by Ben Castricum, 01/30/95

processing file : ALTER1.EXE
DOS file size   : 6223
file-structure  : executable (EXE)
EXE part sizes  : header 32 bytes, image 6191 bytes, overlay 0 bytes
processed with  : [DIET]
action          : decompressing... done
new file size   : 13194
writing to file : ALTER1.EXE

Run UNP on a copy of the compressed exe file (because UNP overwrites the 
original by the uncompressed exe file), so you can see the difference in the 
contents and the size of the original and the uncompressed exe file. The 
difference should be very easy to see. You can run UNP also with the -a- 
commandline option (automatic retry). UNP shows its command line options if you 
run it without any commandline parameters.

RdL> I haven't bothered trying anything else since someone showed me a TSR
RdL> that runs in autoexec.nt that makes it run fine.

So you're running it in a DOS session under Windows NT/200/XP. Try this program 
from pure DOS (for example booted from floppy) without the TP7TP5FIX TSR, to 
see if that makes a difference.


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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