Re: MAPICS 2.0 (S/36) - Source Needed for AMZ00

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try Source Retrival at www.sourceretrival.com.
Carl

At 08:33 PM 6/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:31 PM 6/12/98 -0700, Bob Larkin wrote:
>>A fellow consultant needs the source for S/36 MAPICS 2.0 module AMZ00.
>>He is modifying their application for Y2k, and does not have source for
>>this particular module. Evidently, this module returns an error when
>>year = 00. Rest of software source that needs modification is available.
>>Vendor no longer supports this release, and has not been able to supply
>>the code.
>>
>>Any suggestions on obtaining this code, short of decompiling?
>>
>
>Bob,
>
>No direct help here, but I faced a similar problem recently with several
V2 BPCS programs, and found that it was pretty easy to reverse engineer
them and write my own. I don't remember what AMZ00 does, but I think it
builds some stuff in QTEMP and probably the LDA, and maybe validates the
program registration key against system serial number. It might be possible
to examine the output and duplicate it without jumping through too many
hoops. Since the vendor is no longer supporting it and can't provide a fix,
I'd guess that there would be no enforceable contractual prohibitions
against doing that.
>
>Pete
>
>
>Pete Hall
>peteh@inwave.com 
>http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
>
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