Riddle me this batman ... So I was playing around with an old doorgame I was writing back in 1995. Wanted to add lightbar arrow keys to it. Well, DDPLUS doesn't have that option. So I went looking for a new doorkit. Found XDOOR ... nice kit, one issue, after I compile with TP7.0 I get a RTE 003.


If I hit RUN from within Turbo Pascal the door works FINE ... but once it compiles, it shits the bed with a RTE 003. I have no idea why. Any takers? Compiles and runs fine under DDPLUS and ANGEL for TP7.

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If I hit RUN from within Turbo Pascal the door works FINE ... but once i compiles, it shits the bed with a RTE 003. I have no idea why. Any taker Compiles and runs fine under DDPLUS and ANGEL for TP7.

Update to this ... loaded DOSBOX and it ran just fine. Win10 32bit gives me the RTE003 on the exe with XDOOR kit. So, now I'm really puzzled where the erorr would be ... in the CRT unit or in the XDOOR source itself. I guess
the XDOOR source since DDPLUS and ANGEL work fine.

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On 2022 Jan 31 21:25:40, you wrote to All:

Update to this ... loaded DOSBOX and it ran just fine. Win10 32bit gives me the RTE003 on the exe with XDOOR kit.

Runtime Error 3 is "Path not found" so some directory or file is being looked for and failing to be found... XDOOR crashing with this problem indicates a code defect because XDOOR is not catching the error and handling it properly...


FWIW: i used to use an old TSR called iolog.exe to track things like this... i also used the mark and release tools so i could remove iolog from memory when i was finished with it... the following .bat snippets are 4DOS style...

eg:
if exist %FDSEMA\useiolog.sem (
REM take a snapshot current memory image
mark
REM make a semaphore so we know iolog is loaded
REM for this BBS node
rem>%FDSEMA\iolog%NODE.sem
REM execute the iolog TSR tool
iolog %RALOGS\raN%NODEio.log
)


and some place later we had this to unload iolog when it was not needed any more...


if exist %FDSEMA\iolog%NODE.sem (
REM reset memory to marked snapshot
REM this unloads all TSRs loaded after the snapshot was taken
release
REM remove the semaphore indicating iolog is loaded
del %FDSEMA\iolog%NODE.sem
)


so when we wanted to use iolog, we would create the useiolog.sem file in the %FDSEMA directory and the .bat file would take care of loading and unloading it for us... when we did not need iolog any more, we just deleted the useiolog.sem file and we were done... this made it quite easy to use it in our BBS' controller .bat files so we could use or not iolog without having to stop the BBS... the existance of the semaphores was check at each recycle of the main loop in the .bat file...

then we looked in the (eg) raN10io.log file for all the IO actions that took place during our BBS' N10 execution time period... these files can grow quite large pretty quickly if one is not careful...

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Runtime Error 3 is "Path not found" so some directory or file is being loo for and failing to be found... XDOOR crashing with this problem indicates code defect because XDOOR is not catching the error and handling it proper

Yeah I figured that much already. Funny thing is, if I load DOSBOX and run it, it runs fine. Just under the Win10 DOS Prompt I get the RTE003.

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On 2022 Feb 02 17:01:24, you wrote to me:

Runtime Error 3 is "Path not found" so some directory or file is
being loo for and failing to be found... XDOOR crashing with this
problem indicates code defect because XDOOR is not catching the error
and handling it proper

Yeah I figured that much already. Funny thing is, if I load DOSBOX
and run it, it runs fine. Just under the Win10 DOS Prompt I get the RTE003.

did you miss my rather large hint about using a tool like IOLOG to record all the files a program attempts to open and close so you can see exactly what the problem is in your case?

)\/(ark

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On 02 Feb 22 17:01:25, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Mark Lewis:

Yeah I figured that much already. Funny thing is, if I load DOSBOX and ru it, it runs fine. Just under the Win10 DOS Prompt I get the RTE003.

Run FileMon or Process Explorer, set up a trace on the NTVDM process and look for problems.

Nick

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did you miss my rather large hint about using a tool like IOLOG to record the files a program attempts to open and close so you can see exactly what problem is in your case?

I saw it ... I was just too tired to do anything about it ... <G>

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On 03 Feb 22 17:10:23, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Mark Lewis:

did you miss my rather large hint about using a tool like IOLOG to record the files a program attempts to open and close so you can see exactly what problem is in your case?

I saw it ... I was just too tired to do anything about it ... <G>

Several years ago I worked for someone who was notorious for replying to my tech questions with "I dunno Nicky, did you Google it?"... with a likewise notorious shit-eating grin.

When he called me late at night one time for help fixing a system that was down, I asked him if he "Googled it"... with a shit-eating grin.

Apparently, the sarcasm interpretation was a one-way street.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know... if you're eating shit and grinning, you've got far bigger problems than a file-access problem.

Nick

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When he called me late at night one time for help fixing a system that
was down, I asked him if he "Googled it"... with a shit-eating grin.

Apparently, the sarcasm interpretation was a one-way street.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know... if you're eating shit and grinning, you've got far bigger problems than a file-access problem.

That does it! I'm never drinking coffee while reading your messages again!
You owe me a new keyboard, by the way!

Excuse me, I gotta clean up this mess...there's coffee EVERYWHERE! X-D

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know... if you're eating shit and grinning, you' got far bigger problems than a file-access problem.

Do you tho? Do you? <G>

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On 03 Feb 22 19:34:11, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Nick Andre:

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know... if you're eating shit and grinning, you' got far bigger problems than a file-access problem.

Do you tho? Do you? <G>

I'm reminded of the time I introduced a lady friend to a "Dutch oven".

Nick

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On 2022 Feb 04 20:47:32, you wrote to T.J. Mcmillen:

I'm reminded of the time I introduced a lady friend to a "Dutch oven".

ROTFL!! did she fall for "pull my finger", too? O:)

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Update to this ... loaded DOSBOX and it ran just fine. Win10 32bit gives the RTE003 on the exe with XDOOR kit. So, now I'm really puzzled where th erorr would be ... in the CRT unit or in the XDOOR source itself. I guess the XDOOR source since DDPLUS and ANGEL work fine.

Fixed. In XDOOR.PAS in command.com it needed to add an extra \ to the path for reading the config file. For Win NTVDM cmd.exe it doesn't need that extra \ as it's added my cmd.exe. So that was the issue once it was compiled.

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On 08 Feb 22 16:41:31, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to All:

Fixed. In XDOOR.PAS in command.com it needed to add an extra \ to the path for reading the config file. For Win NTVDM cmd.exe it doesn't need that ex \ as it's added my cmd.exe. So that was the issue once it was compiled.

You're the super hacker tonight.

Nick

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Fixed. In XDOOR.PAS in command.com it needed to add an extra \ to the pat for reading the config file. For Win NTVDM cmd.exe it doesn't need that e \ as it's added my cmd.exe. So that was the issue once it was compiled.

You're the super hacker tonight.

HAHAHAHHAH

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