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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: yep! its runtime error 200 (PS)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:29:34 +1100
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Firstly, below, "... V7.0, which ..." should read as "... V7.0, a bug which
...".

Another possibility is a bug caused by some early versions of MonoSoft
EXEPACK, although I can't remember if the error was RTE200 or something
different. If that's the problem, try "LOADFIX.BAT" (if this fixes things,
then
that confirms the cause).

If it's the EXEPACK bug, but you don't like the LOADFIX solution, you can
try the UNP411 program ( http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/45323.html ) to
decompress your troublesome executables. After that, they should run
fine, but take a little more of your disk space (same memory usage
however). You can even re-compress them with a (hopefully non-buggy)
exe-compressor, if file size is an issue (not usually worth the bother).

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	da Silva, Joe 
> Sent:	Monday, February 18, 2002 10:05 AM
> To:	'opendos AT delorie DOT com'
> Subject:	RE: yep! its runtime error 200
> 
> What's a MOSLO prog???
> 
> Anyway, as you have been informed, this is probably a program compiled
> with Borland's Turbo Pascal, specifically V7.0, which those half-wits at
> Borland acknowledged but never fixed (well, Borland France did belatedly
> fix the french version of the TP7.01 compiler, so some credit to them).
> 
> The preferred solution of course is to apply a patch to the TP7 run-time
> library (particularly the CRT unit) and recompile the program. If however
> you don't have the source code, you can try the EXE patches to the
> executable suggested. Another such patch, for either the RTL or EXE
> is :       http://fjf.gnu.de/bp-progs.html#NewDelay
> 
> Joe.
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	J Yazel [SMTP:jyazel AT nls DOT net]
> 	Sent:	Monday, February 18, 2002 9:24 AM
> 	To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> 	Subject:	Re: yep! its runtime error 200
> 
> 	jennifer wrote:
> 	> 
> 	> yep it's runtime error 200 ! I have "upgraded" to a pentium II
> 300mhz a
> 	> while back but didn't notice the problem until recently,probably
> because I
> 	> was working on the "windoz" part first and am now doing my DOS
> stuff.
> 	> What 's the story on the MOSLO prog? is it a command line thing?
> or what?
> 	> oh well im going to find it now!  .......any other way to fix prob
> besides
> 	> slowing down the box? 
> 	> tnx fer the info!
> 	  ------------------------------------
> 
> 	  Hi Jennifer,
> 
> 	  Runtime error 200 is caused by a software timing loop that
> 	times out before it is supposed to in newer computers because
> 	they are faster than the programmer ever imagined that computers
> 	would become.
> 
> 	  There are two fixes that I know of that may correct the problem
> 	on some programs. They do not fix all programs but since they are
> 	free, try'em, you may like'em.
> 
> 	  The locations are:
> 
> 	        
> 	        crtfix.zip      ftp://simtelnet/msdos/turbopas/
> 
> 	        tppatch         ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi
> 
> 
> 	   If you don't know how to get FTP items, I can send them to
> 	you. They're small.
> 
> 	       Jack