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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 04:39:10 09/06/03

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On September 05, 2003 at 19:07:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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).

Not all.

Under win98 I used the winapi function _lwrite wich doesn't work correctly under
winxp.

Tony




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