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
--
To reply, eradicate all threes in my SPAM guarded address.

[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]

"Fatfreek" <mi********@ark3ans3as.net> wrote in message
news:nt********************@arkansas.net...

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

news:microsoft.public.vc.ide_general

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

john

[Fatfreek]

Thanks. The file was in a newly created directory, a child of the source.

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