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Q58789: "Input Run-Time Module Path:" Never Found If BRUN45.EXE Typed

Article: Q58789
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900209-125 buglist4.50 B_BasicCom | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 9-MAR-1990

An executable program that requires but cannot locate the BRUN45.EXE
run-time module displays the prompt "Input run-time module path:". If
you type the complete path with the BRUN45.EXE or BRUN45 filename at
the end, the search is never satisfied and the prompt continues to
display. You must press CTRL+C or CTRL+BREAK to abort.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in QuickBASIC Version
4.50 for MS-DOS. This problem was corrected in Microsoft BASIC
Compiler Versions 6.00 and 6.00b (fixlist6.00, fixlist6.00b) and in
Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) Version 7.00
(fixlist7.00).

A QuickBASIC source file compiled without the BC /O option makes
LINK.EXE link with the BRUN45.LIB run-time library to create an
executable program. If the resulting code cannot locate the BRUN45.EXE
run-time module, a prompt displays for you to enter the path to search
for the module.

If you provide an incorrect path, the prompt displays again. This
process continues until one of the following two conditions occur:

1. You stop the process with CTRL+C or CTRL+BREAK.

2. You give the correct path WITHOUT the filename BRUN45.EXE or
   BRUN45 appended. For example, type "C:\QB45\" as a path.

If you give the correct path plus the filename BRUN45 with or without
the extension .EXE at the end, the prompt is never satisfied (even if
you next give the correct path WITHOUT the filename BRUN45.EXE or
BRUN45 appended).

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