Novice can't compile and run

[Fatfreek]

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

 

[JKop]

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

 

[John Harrison]

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?

Perhaps but if you analyse your problem you'll see that there is no C++ or
even C content to your question. It seems to be about how to operate your
compiler, or even about how to run programs on your computer.

Please ask again on a more appropriate group, if it is help with your
compiler that you want then I'd suggest


since that group is dedicated to your compiler. We only deal with platform
independent language issues here.

john