AW>> And while we're on the "topic" of pascal, I made a program to
AW>> detect all pascal programs that would be subject to the pentium
AW>> crash bug, in all directories, and apply the patch I recieved from
AW>> Eddy Jansson (the easiest solution in the short term, thanks to
AW>> others for their patches as well) interactively.
AW>> Does anyone want it?
DC> YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DC> Oh, does the patch affect non-pentium systems or do they still operate
DC> normally? I don't want to release 2 versions of an exe, one for pents
nd
DC> one for non-pents.
It appears to double/triple the length of actual "Delay" code. If you use
something other than Delay() then you should be fine to use the rest of the
CRT unit. See previous messages for Delay() replacements, or write one
yourself.
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