Changeset 223 for trunk/reskit

Timestamp:

Jun 18, 2005, 6:16:59 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

root

Message:

Integrate Greg Young's hints and tips

File:

• trunk/reskit/reskit.txt (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/reskit/reskit.txt

@@ -31 +31 @@
 FM/2 may refuse to run correctly.
 
-To get quick usage help, type
+To get quick usage help, type:
 
   COMPILE
@@ -37 +37 @@
 at the command line.
 
-To rebuild just FM3RES.STR, type
+To rebuild just FM3RES.STR, type:
 
- COMPILE /S
+ compile /s
 
 at the command line.
 
-To rebuild both FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR, type
+To rebuild both FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR, type:
 
- COMPILE /B
+ compile /b
 
 at a command line.
@@ -52 +52 @@
 program directory and restart FM/2.
 
+
+== Trouble Shooting ==
+
+FM/2 versions 3.20i-6 and earlier stripped the DOS stub from FM3RES.DLL.
+This will cause RC.EXE to fail with a 1013 error.  Current versions of FM/2
+preserve the stub, so you should not see this error.
+
+If you want to alter FM3RES.DLL for an older version of FM/2, you need to run
+LXLITE.EXE on FM3RES.DLL to restore the DOS stub before running RC.EXE.  You
+can get LXLITE.EXE from Hobbes:
+
+ <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lxlite&pushbutton=Search>
+
+Any relatively recent version of lxlite should work, but 1.3.3 was used to
+verify this procedure.
+
+At a command promt, run:
+
+  lxlite X:\path\fm3res.dll /x
+  lxlite X:\path\fm3resdll /c:minstub
+
+This will decompress the DLL and restore the stub.
+
+After recompiling the DLL, you can run
+
+  lxlite X:\path\fm3res.dll /c:default
+
+to recompress the DLL, if you wish.
+
+Not all versions of RC.EXE are created equal.  Currently, the best version to
+use is:
+
+ 12-18-97   6:01         868,000           0  rc.exe
+
+which reports itself as:
+
+ IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.002 Dec 18 1997
+
+and which is available at:
+
+  <ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/warpzilla/os2tk40rc.zip>
+
+
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