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Title: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: darksun9210 on September 19, 2009, 09:51:43 PM

Hi all,
Hope someone can help.
just fired up a miggy again for the first time in ages, and on running executables extracted from LHAs it is coming up with,
"unable to run your tool "
now, the archives are coming from a mounted network share off of a windows homeserver machine.
mounted via SMBFS with the command lines
stack 65536
smbfs workgroup=workgroup user= password= service=\\homeserver\software device=net0: volume=software: translate=l:filesystem_trans/intl.crossdos quiet

so i run lha x software:demos\#?.lha ram: all the extracted stuff works fine, so i guess the network link bit is ok.
if i extract to disk (A1200, 3.1roms, 3.1software, bliz1230, 144Mb ram, 4GB CF card - 300Mb DH0: 3.6GB DH1: )
and try to run it, i get "unable to open your tool "
so it maybe the max transfer?
currently set to 0x1fffff
does this sound about right?
anyone got any ideas?

cheers,
Andy.

Title: Re: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: Karlos on September 19, 2009, 09:53:35 PM

Have you checked the protection bits on the files after extracting?

Title: Re: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: darksun9210 on September 19, 2009, 10:14:13 PM

ok, i got,
----rwed
and my clock is upto date, so there is none of that "hmmm, this file was created in the future so i can't open incase of paradoxical time vortex" error. ;)
if i copy it to ram, it still doesn't work. so it seems that whatever is happening is happening when it gets written to disk, as extracting to ram, and all is well, then copy the app that works in ram to disk, and the "unable to open tool..." kicks in...
thinking about it. maybe it doesn't like bigger than 2GB partitions.
i'm gonna try an extraction to the 300Mb system drive and see if that works.

Title: Re: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: darksun9210 on September 19, 2009, 10:19:27 PM

crud. that worked. the copy to system drive thing.
my system drive has a max xfer of 0x1fffff
my data drive has a max xfer of 0xffffff
darn it. sorry all. my bad. tired. thanks for listening ;)

Title: Re: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: darksun9210 on September 19, 2009, 10:29:40 PM

ok, set the max xfer of my data drive to 0x1fffff
extracting directly to the drive works.
extracting to ram, and then copying to the drive. doesn't.
arrrgh!
i dunho. i have a solution that works kinda. nite all. sleep time.

Title: Re: unable to open your tool <app name>?
Post by: Matt_H on September 20, 2009, 06:24:10 AM

Your maxtransfer is probably still too high. See here (http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/a1200/a1200.html).