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Subject: Re: Works in win 98, crashes on xp.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:07:40 09/05/03

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On September 05, 2003 at 18:52:20, macaroni wrote:

>I recently had a chance to try my program out on an excellent computer (1.4 g
>centrino), I happily downloaded winboard, and copied my programs exe file across
>hoping to see the knps rocket. Instead, the program 'exited unexpectantly' for
>seemingly no reason. It did this whether I ran it from winboard, or on it's own
>(not that it works on it's own anyway). Is this standard? must I in fact compile
>the program on the win xp machine? I do use the function 'PeekNamedPipe' in my
>program. Could this be causing the problem? Thanks
>
>note that GNUchess ran perfectly (and fast)

Probably, you have a bad memory access.  The Win9x stuff will sometimes tolerate
that sort of thing.  Win2k/NT/XP won't.

Just a guess, of course.

It's not where you compiled it.  And all the functions that work on 98 will work
just fine on XP (but not necessarily the other way round).



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