-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Tofu Optimist wrote:
> I have been working with PAR on WinXP (home) and > encoutnering flaky problems: sometimes pp runs, > sometimes it doesn't (same source file, no changes); > sometimes the resulting .exe file runs, sometimes it > doesn't (no changes to .exe). > > When I say "doesn't run", I get no errors, just a > quick and silent return to the command prompt. These > scripts are verbose and chatter quite a bit -- there > is no mode in which they run silently. > > Specifically, if I click "properties" on the .exe and > set "Win95 Compatibility Mode", the .exe's function > normally, repeatedly, consistently. > > Does anyone have any advice about this? I ran into the same problem a month or so ago and asked about it on the list, but didn't get an answer. I'm not sure what the problem is. It must be ittermitent, though - I had reports from my users out in the field that the PAR-compiled .exe was running fine on XP for them. But for the new Dell/XP Home system I had, I couldn't get the .exe to run. - --Wade -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uQXvo4DwsyRGDscRAq7OAKCBvJ59um+FT/x8a4cI8GJu4m9PXACg5KBU 171B6E8/J1WBVoexttiAxSQ= =U4S4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----