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  • DOSXTRN.EXE

    From Electrosys@1:103/705 to All on Sun Mar 20 13:01:09 2022
    Hi All,

    I have recently updated to version 3.19 but I seem to have an old version of DOSXTRN.EXE. Is there an updated version of this exe that I should have? I see that DOSXTRN.EXE gets called when the TDBMAINT timed event runs but I get an "Unsupported 16-Bit Application" error when the exe runs.

    Any advice here?

    Thanks,
    Electrosys
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Electrosys on Sun Mar 20 14:04:58 2022
    Re: DOSXTRN.EXE
    By: Electrosys to All on Sun Mar 20 2022 01:01 pm

    Hi All,

    I have recently updated to version 3.19 but I seem to have an old version of DOSXTRN.EXE. Is there an updated version of this exe that I should have? I see that DOSXTRN.EXE gets called when the TDBMAINT timed event runs but I get an "Unsupported 16-Bit Application" error when the exe runs.

    Any advice here?

    v3.19b did come with an updated dosxtrn.exe:

    pkzip25 -view sbup319b.zip exec/dosxtrn.exe
    PKZIP(R) Version 2.50 FAST! Compression Utility for Windows 95/NT 4-15-1998 Copyright 1989-1998 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
    PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745

    Viewing .ZIP: sbup319b.zip

    Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
    ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
    16571 DeflatN 10947 34.0% 12/01/2021 10:23a 3af9e9fc --w---- exec/dosxtrn.exe
    ------ ------ ----- ----
    16571 10947 34.0% 1

    Is that not the one you're using?
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  • From Electrosys@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Sun Mar 20 21:45:42 2022
    Re: DOSXTRN.EXE
    By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Mar 20 2022 02:04 pm

    Viewing .ZIP: sbup319b.zip

    Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
    ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
    16571 DeflatN 10947 34.0% 12/01/2021 10:23a 3af9e9fc --w---- exec/dosxtrn.exe
    ------ ------ ----- ----
    16571 10947 34.0% 1

    Is that not the one you're using?

    It most certainly is the one that I'm using, the CRC-32 matches. At anyrate I have ntvdm install now so even if it was a 16-bit application I wouldn't see the error anway.

    Is there a way to check how many bits an exe will run at? I just wanted to double check.

    Thanks,
    Electrosys

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Electrosys on Sun Mar 20 22:38:33 2022
    Re: DOSXTRN.EXE
    By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Mar 20 2022 09:45 pm

    Re: DOSXTRN.EXE
    By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Mar 20 2022 02:04 pm

    Viewing .ZIP: sbup319b.zip

    Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
    ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
    16571 DeflatN 10947 34.0% 12/01/2021 10:23a 3af9e9fc --w---- exec/dosxtrn.exe
    ------ ------ ----- ----
    16571 10947 34.0% 1

    Is that not the one you're using?

    It most certainly is the one that I'm using, the CRC-32 matches. At anyrate I have ntvdm install now so even if it was a 16-bit application I wouldn't see the error anway.

    You didn't have ntvdm installed before?

    Is there a way to check how many bits an exe will run at? I just wanted to double check.

    If you hex-dump the .exe file, and you see something like this, then it's *not* a 16-bit DOS/Windows exe:

    00000000 4d 5a 90 00 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 |MZ..............| 00000010 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........@.......| 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 01 00 00 |................| 00000040 0e 1f ba 0e 00 b4 09 cd 21 b8 01 4c cd 21 54 68 |........!..L.!Th| 00000050 69 73 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 20 63 61 6e 6e 6f |is program canno| 00000060 74 20 62 65 20 72 75 6e 20 69 6e 20 44 4f 53 20 |t be run in DOS | 00000070 6d 6f 64 65 2e 0d 0d 0a 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |mode....$.......|

    If it's *not* 16-bit, then it's either 32-bit or 64-bit (PE executable) and then you need other ways to tell, e.g.
    https://www.extrabit.com/exeproperties
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