On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:03:42 PM UTC-7, David Courtney wrote:   
   > I recently got the itch to tinker with the old MBBS stuff. I went through   
   v6.25 and was able to get it installed and working, and was able to install   
   Borland C++ 3.1, RUN286, and was able to compile everything without too much   
   difficulty.    
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   > I wanted to see if the same process would work for Worldgroup 1.01 and WG   
   2.0. I updated the compiler to Borland C++ 4.52, but when I run makebbs, I get   
   all kinds of errors. To narrow down the problem, I took a look at makebbs.bat   
   and decided to run    
   the make statements one at a time so I could see the errors without having   
   them pass off the top of the screen.    
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   > What I'm getting is:    
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   > C:\WGSERV\SRC>make -fbbsrpt    
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   > MAKE Version 3.7 Copyright (c) 1987, 1994 Borland International    
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   > 32loader runtime error: Unhandled exception    
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   > Exception 0E at 0197:00007A00 error code 00000007    
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   > ...then it goes on from there with a bunch of hex... followed by    
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   > The invalid instruction was executed at 00007A00    
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   > I think the problem may be that I don't have all the necessary paths in my   
   \BORLANDC\BIN\TURBOC.CFG and \BORLANDC\BIN\TLINK.CFG    
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   > My TURBOC.CFG is as follows:    
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   > -IM:\BC452\INCLUDE    
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   > -LM:\BC452\LIB    
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   > -I\BC452\INCLUDE;\RUN286\INC;\WGSERV\SRC    
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   > -L\BC452\LIB;\RUN286\BC4\LIB;\WGSERV\DLIB    
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   > My TLINK.CFG is as follows:    
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   > -LM:\BC452\LIB    
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   > -L\BC452\LIB;\RUN286\BC4\LIB;\WGSERV\DLIB    
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   > Unfortunately I don't have any documentation for WG 1.01 or WG 2.0, so I'm   
   not sure what I'm missing. Can anyone help?   
      
   sort of late, but looks like one of the Borland exes is stroking out. run the   
   compiler exe by hand and see if it aborts.   
      
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