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Troubleshooting
We are confident that Rescue5 will accurately recover source
code from the vast majority of CA- Clipper 5 applications. It
is however self evident that the number of possible
combinations of source statements is so large as to be
effectively infinite, and that there may be versions of linkers
and/or CA-Clipper that we have not come across.
Should Rescue5 fail to recover source code for any of the above
reasons it is our policy that, provided you supply us with a
copy of the file you are trying to recover the source from, we
will recover the source code for you.
Note that this service is conditional on the following:
. The .EXE, .LIB or .OBJ file concerned has not been
protected by some password, encryption or scrambling device
. You have not failed to recover the source code through
misuse of Rescue5
. You can prove that own the rights to the source code you
are trying to recover
In addition to the above service we will release linker and
CA-Clipper version upgrades to Rescue5 from time to time.
Before you contact us, please check the following:
If CA-Clipper reports errors compiling the recovered code
1) Ensure (where possible) that the application is being
re-compiled with the same version of the CA-Clipper compiler
as it was originally built with. Note that the library
version reported in the .RMK file identifies the CLIPPER.LIB
file it was linked with and not the compiler version. We
have encountered legal code that some versions of CA-Clipper
5 fail to compile, reporting internal errors, but which
other versions compile without fault.
2) Check that you have enough free memory and disk space; it is
possible to get an "out of string space" error with
CA-Clipper if you do not have enough free memory.
3) If CA-Clipper reports a macro error when there is no macro
in sight, try compiling with a different version of the
compiler (see 1 above).
4) If you used /r0 to disable line splitting the recovered code
may have lines that are too long for CA-Clipper to parse.
Either split the lines manually or use a different /r
setting.
If all else fails see the Support section for details of how to
contact us.
If there are missing symbols when you try to link the
application:
1) Check the source code produced to see if any initialisation
procedures exist for RDD's other that DBFNTX. Link again
with the appropriate RDD.
2) You may not have the third party libraries necessary to
re-link the application. Identify the libraries you need
and include them in the link script.
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