Re: Problems with running yarn on faster computers

From: Andrew Hodgson (andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:52:25 +0100

In article <19990922120252.F794@ptw.com>, rex <rex@ptw.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:42:32AM -0700, rex wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:36:53PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>> > >
>> >>I was rather hoping I could keep my older setup (yarn, yes, boxer
>> >>etc), but I get various runtime errors from the programs in the yes
>> >>suite (yes.exe, yesx.exe etc).
>>
>> If you're getting divide by zero errors, yes is probably written in
>> Borland's Pascal. There is a bug in the compiler that causes problems
>> with fast processors. I don't know if there is a fix w/o the source
>> code.
>
>Update:
>You might contact Joe if you're comfortable searching through Yes with
>a debugger and patching the code.
>
>==============================================================================
>I ran into this problem in June '97 when I got a new machine, a 266
>PII. It later happened at work on a 233 HP Vectra.
>
> Using Turbo Debugger, I found and patched the offending code,
> and Procomm now works fine.

Thanks ever-so!!

I got yes.exe, yesx.exe and yes286.exe to work using this method, however, the
extra utilities ypost.exe, yfolder.exe and reorder.exe used pklite.

-- 
Sincerely,
Andrew.


   This was before we knew that a laboratory rat, if experimented upon, will
        develop cancer.		 	[Quoted by] Anne (annezo@aol.com), 1997-1-29