Re: Run time error in TN5250.EXE version 0.17.4 for Windows

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Chambers wrote:

There is a patch for winterm.c in the repository that fixes some bugs,
maybe that one, but it is applied after 0.17.4. You can get mingw and
compile it yourself.

It was supposed to fix the crash in XP when the system goes into lock
mode, but it doesn't if there is any screen activity after it goes into
lock mode.

The patch in the repository doesn't match the patch in the archives of
this list. The patch in the archives removes line 2154:
TN5250_ASSERT(0);
I recompiled it without this line, and it no longer locks up. I don't
know if this will fix your problem or not. I don't even know enough to
know if this might cause problems elsewhere, but it's worked ok on 4
systems for the last two weeks.

John,

Any chance you could post the binaries you created somewhere? Or email them to me directly and I'll post them alongside the x5250 repository. They should really be posted on the sourceforge site but until we get our act together there this could be a handy way to get Bill working.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
- Paul Davis on ardour-dev