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Borland Pascal 7.0 (Developers)

posted by paulrichards, 06.07.2011, 06:49

> > Further to the earlier posting on BP 7.0, I have a problem with Resource
> > Workshop under Window XP. When I launch RW I get the following message:
> >
> > "Resource Workshop has discovered that an Unrecoverable Application
> Error
> > or other abnormal termination has occurred on a previous instance of
> > Resource Workshop ... Select Cancel to quit, Select OK to continue"
> >
> > If I select OK I get a message "Error: Only 5 instances of Resource
> > Workshop are allowed"
>
> Has it always done this under XP? Has something changed or is this the
> first time you've tried?
>
> Are you running under any compatibility modes? Probably won't help, but at
> least be sure to try. (Long story short, WinXP != Win16, and some
> compatibility will be lost, sadly.)

Yes, this happens under 'native XP' with or without compatibility mode (Win 95).

Curiously I also have BP7 installed in a VMWare Player XP Pro virtual machine (Win 7 64 bit host). I tried it this morning and Resource Workshop fires up just fine. Very strange !!!

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Paul
Melbourne, Australia

Complete thread:

• Borland Pascal 7.0 - paulrichards, 04.07.2011, 22:26
  • Borland Pascal 7.0 - Laaca, 05.07.2011, 07:14
    • Borland Pascal 7.0 - paulrichards, 05.07.2011, 09:22
  • Borland Pascal 7.0 - Japheth, 05.07.2011, 09:42
    • Borland Pascal 7.0 - paulrichards, 05.07.2011, 10:10
      • Borland Pascal 7.0 - marcov, 07.07.2011, 21:23
        • Borland Pascal 7.0 - paulrichards, 08.07.2011, 10:04
  • Borland Pascal 7.0 - Rugxulo, 06.07.2011, 06:40
    • Borland Pascal 7.0 - paulrichards, 06.07.2011, 06:49