New installation and old program

[georges pletinckx 0]

Hello, I don't know if I am at the right place.

I installed Delphi and I want to work on an old program.

I want to edit a .pas file and i get this on screen (see the attach file). How can I solve this?

Thx

[FPiette 383]

It looks like you Calcul.pas file is not a Delphi source code. Given we see "EXIF", it is possible that it is a JPG or other image format.

 

If you open Calcul.pas using Notepad, does it display garbage?

 

[darnocian 84]

That looks like your file system may be corrupted if a .pas is opening that way. Worth looking at a backup (hopefully you have external version control like github). Worth running a chkdsk on your drive and check other sources too that you may rely on.

Edited April 17, 2023 by darnocian

[KodeZwerg 54]

24 minutes ago, darnocian said:

That looks like your file system may be corrupted if a .pas is opening that way. Worth looking at a backup (hopefully you have external version control like github). Worth running a chkdsk on your drive and check other sources too that you may rely on.

Nope, by looking at the first four Bytes it really looks like a Jpeg signature, at least they start same way, but why an image file got a .pas extension... ask @georges pletinckx

So I hope for him he still got a backup somewhere flying around.

[FPiette 383]

1 hour ago, KodeZwerg said:

Nope, by looking at the first four Bytes it really looks like a Jpeg signature

@KodeZwerg That is basically the same answer as I gave yesterday...

He probably got a screen dump of the source code as a jpg image and renamed the file to .pas thinking this is the way to get the actual source code 😄😄😄 Of course it isn't...

[Roger Cigol 103]

... try renaming the file back to .jpg and then try to open it with a photo viewer app and see !

[georges pletinckx 0]

Hello, I used an old version of calcul.pas and I can edit it.

Thanks all.

[FPiette 383]

@georges pletinckxI'm interested to know if - as I guessed - you had renamed a JPG file to .PAS.

[georges pletinckx 0]

Hello, no I didn't because it must be a pas file. I goes to the history ans i bring the last calcul.pas and it's ok

[FPiette 383]

1 hour ago, georges pletinckx said:

Hello, no I didn't because it must be a pas file. I goes to the history ans i bring the last calcul.pas and it's ok

Well, how do you explain that a .PAS file actually contained JPG data? If you have not renamed, you copied a jpg over a pas file.

btw: There is no shame to make an error. That's how we learn.

[georges pletinckx 0]

I don't explain it. May be I tried to modify it on my Mac. I don't see another reason

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

for sure, you "replaced" with your another files in some moment (by mistake, for example), ex. pas with jpeg etc....