• Ansi Editor that works at 1.33GHz

    From Dan Egli@1:3005/3 to All on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 23:18:20
    Hey All,

    I need some advise here. After having my old BBS machine just completely die
    on me (Hard drive failed, then as soon as I got the Hard drive back from waranty and got the O/S reinstalled, the MotherBoard goes out!), so I had to move the BBS to a much faster machine than I'm used to using for the BBS. The BBS now shares my "everyday" machine, a 1.33GHz box. But when I grabbed TheDraw
    to start trying to re-create some ansi screens for the BBS, TheDraw poops out with a runtime error 103 every time I run it. I don't know whats up. What I do know is that I need an ANSI editor I can use, easily, that works at the speeds of my current machine.

    If someone can recomend a good editor, and where to get it I'd be greatful.
    Please don't say from thebbs.org because I tried there, and every editor I tried to D/L came up "550 file not found".

    Dan

    P.S. It would be even better if I could convince some kind soul to do the screens for me. I'm a LOWSY ansi artist (couldn't draw a good picture to save my life), and so my screens are often not that great to look at.

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  • From Robert Brisco@2:249/3110.78 to Dan Egli on Monday, April 19, 2004 16:37:08
    Hallo Dan!

    30 Dec 03 23:18, Dan Egli schrieb an All:

    Hey All,

    I need some advise here. After having my old BBS machine just completely die on me (Hard drive failed, then as soon as I got the Hard drive back from waranty and got the O/S reinstalled, the MotherBoard goes out!), so I had to move the BBS to a much faster machine than I'm used to using for the BBS. The BBS now shares my "everyday" machine, a 1.33GHz box. But when I grabbed TheDraw to start trying to re-create some ansi screens for the BBS, TheDraw poops out with a runtime error 103 every time I run it. I don't know whats up. What I do know is that I need an ANSI editor I can use, easily, that works at the speeds of my current machine.

    If someone can recomend a good editor, and where to get it I'd be greatful. Please don't say from thebbs.org because I tried there, and every editor I tried to D/L came up "550 file not found".

    Dan

    P.S. It would be even better if I could convince some kind soul to do the screens for me. I'm a LOWSY ansi artist (couldn't draw a good picture to save my life), and so my screens are often not that great to look at.

    Try getting PATCHCRT.EXE 43,226


    Patch it. You might have to use it on other BBS Files as well.


    Robert

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  • From Dan Egli@1:311/6 to Robert Brisco on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 09:35:10
    Hey Robert,

    19 Apr 04 15:37, you wrote to me:


    Try getting PATCHCRT.EXE 43,226


    Patch it. You might have to use it on other BBS Files as well.

    First, that message was WAY old :> Second 103 is not the CRT error, 3rd the CRT
    error applies to Pascal compiled programs, TheDraw was written in C :> So patchcrt wouldn't do a lot of good. I had tried tppatch which does the same thing basically. It refused to run on it. I finally found out that the 103 error was due to a corrupted .TDF file. I reset my fonts to baseline and it worked great.

    -- Dan

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to Dan Egli on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 20:55:50
    Hello, Dan.

    On 20 Apr 04 at 08:35, Dan Egli wrote to Robert Brisco:

    written in C :> So patchcrt wouldn't do a lot of good. I had tried

    Uh, no, TheDraw was originally written in QuickBASIC with certain parts written
    in assembly. If you look in the TD archive, there's files that start with QB4*... but the version I have says it was written in TP6.

    Error 103 in TP is "file not open". I'd gather that your assumption is right and I'd say he follow your advice about the .TDF files. I have TD 4.63 running
    on a 800Mhz machine nicely.


    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Dan Egli@1:311/6 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 22:16:26
    Hey Sean,

    Uh, no, TheDraw was originally written in QuickBASIC with certain
    parts written in assembly. If you look in the TD archive, there's
    files that start with QB4*... but the version I have says it was
    written in TP6.

    Error 103 in TP is "file not open". I'd gather that your assumption
    is right and I'd say he follow your advice about the .TDF files. I
    have TD 4.63 running on a 800Mhz machine nicely.

    TP6? Weird because when I ran TPPATCH against it (it was ME asking for help, btw, he was just replying to an old message), it said the file was not a tp6/tp7 program. Maybe it was a PKLite'ed exe. That would confuse tppatch.

    -- Dan

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to Dan Egli on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:53:22
    Hello, Dan.

    On 20 Apr 04 at 21:16, Dan Egli wrote to Sean Dennis:

    TP6? Weird because when I ran TPPATCH against it (it was ME asking for help, btw, he was just replying to an old message), it said the file
    was not a tp6/tp7 program. Maybe it was a PKLite'ed exe. That would confuse tppatch.

    Yeah... forgot to say he might want to pick up UNP (it's on my Maximus site at http://midnightshour.org/maximus/). Run UNP against it, then TPPATCH, however,
    like I said before, I have it running on a 850Mhz machine with no patching or fixing... so I don't think patching it would help. ;)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Dan Egli@1:311/6 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 19:46:58
    Hey Sean,

    21 Apr 04 09:53, you wrote to me:

    Hello, Dan.

    On 20 Apr 04 at 21:16, Dan Egli wrote to Sean Dennis:

    TP6? Weird because when I ran TPPATCH against it (it was ME
    asking for help, btw, he was just replying to an old message), it
    said the file was not a tp6/tp7 program. Maybe it was a PKLite'ed
    exe. That would confuse tppatch.

    Yeah... forgot to say he might want to pick up UNP (it's on my Maximus site at http://midnightshour.org/maximus/). Run UNP against it, then TPPATCH, however, like I said before, I have it running on a 850Mhz machine with no patching or fixing... so I don't think patching it
    would help. ;)

    Now that I think about it, it wouldn't. TP6 didn't have the RTE200 bug, it was TP7/BP7 that did. TP6 used a different calculation routine that appearently doesn't crash. Don't know if it calculates right, but it doesn't crash.

    -- Dan

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