Re: Novice can't compile and run

From: JKop (NULL_at_NULL.NULL)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:18:05 GMT

Fatfreek posted:

> In the early 90's I kept annual journals in Word Perfect 5.1 and they
> were password protected. You guessed it -- I've forgotten the password.
>
>
>
> Only a few years ago under Win98 I found a program (Copyright (c) 1990,
> 91 Ron Dippold 10/11/91) that can assist cracking the password,
> downloaded it but it didn't work, and returned the "Program too big to
> fit in memory" message. Now that I have Win2k with 1.5 Gbytes Ram, I
> thought I'd revisit the challenge -- but I get the same message.
>
>
>
> The reason for my post here is, along with the program (WPCRACK.EXE
> 128,512, 8-15-01 2:52:28 pm), there was some 450 lines of C source
> code. Hey, I make no pretensions on knowing anything about C though
> taking one evening course several years ago. Since then, my VC 5.0++
> CD has been on the shelf. So, what the heck, I reinstalled that and
> tried to compile Mr. Dippold's code. I get the following [WPCRACK.exe
> - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)] but can't find an executable.
>
>
>
> Interestingly, from the pull-down Build menu, the menu item "Execute
> WPCRACK.exe" runs in a console window, but to work correctly, I need to
> add some command line parameters.
>
>
>
> Is there hope here?
>
>
>
> Len Miller

Click the Start Button. Hit Run. Type:

command

In the MS-DOS window, type:

cd\
dir/a/s/p wpcrack.exe

That'll tell you where the bleeding thing is!

-JKop

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