From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: My .exe works on my machine but not on my friends!
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 04:12:08 -0400
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Herman Schoenfeld wrote:
> 
> In article <341C6338 DOT 1036 AT club-internet DOT fr>, ludvig AT club-internet DOT fr says...
> >
> >program just wont run, no errorcodes, nothing. we have the same
> >setups, win95 the same directory and everything but when He 
> > doubbleclicks on the exe the dospromt shows for a second and then
> > exit.

ask your friend to rnd the program from the dos prompt (by doing
Start-Programs-MSDOS Prompt.) then he/she can see if there is a
traceback. you might want to give him/her a copy of symify.exe (from
your bin directory). if there is a traceback, running 

symify name_of_the_exe

should produce some information.

> >
> >It is a fairly small program which doesn't use much memory etc so
>  >what can the problem be? Isn't the exe enough? Do i have to send him
> > other files(for the DPMI services etc) or should it be enough to run
> > under win95?

just the exe should be enough. the problem is the properties of the dos
box that runs when you double-click on the exe: it closes automatically
after execution so you cannot see the output or traceback if any is
being produced.

  -- Sinan