Re[2]: Error message when installing on Win95

From: Kenneth J. Davis (jeremyd_at_computer.org)
Date: Sat Nov 22 2003 - 05:47:11 EST

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    On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:13:33 -0500 Ed Agro <ed_agro_at_verizon.net> wrote:

    EA> I also got the illegal operation msg when trying to install AbW ver. 2
    EA> (both the public release and builds from pchasm), on a machine running

    Are you willing to help me track down the cause? no one else has indicated
    a willingness to, and I do not get the error on my Win95b computer.

    which builds, I have quite a few now (I suppose you mean CVS HEAD
    made by MSVC 6, i.e. the default cvs nightly builds).

    EA> Win95B. (Ver 1.04 non-bidi works fine.) I decided to wait until I'd
    EA> istalled Win2K to try again; but noticing that "get the latest copy of
    EA> msvcrt.dll" has popped up in the discussion, I did a search of my
    EA> system. I
    EA> find that I have four versions of msvcrt.dll installed, each one
    EA> coming in
    EA> during the install of one app or another. The "latest" ver. available
    EA> from
    EA> microsoft (I found it in
    EA> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp5/sp5_vb_e
    EA> n.aspx
    EA> ) is in fact the *oldest* of the ones I see on my machine. Could a
    EA> Win95
    EA> user tell me if the msvcrt.dll applicable to AbW should into
    EA> \windows\system and/or \windows\ws2bakup? And would I give myself
    EA> grief if
    EA> I over-wrote all of the eaarlier version with the latest one I find
    EA> on my
    EA> disk?

    If msvcrt.dll is not installed, the installer places along side of
    AbiWord.exe, however, you are more than welcome to place in \windows\sytem
    if you have other programs that use it as well. DLLs placed in the
    system directory should be registered so installers that attempt to
    update the DLL know its existance and more importantly so the count
    of who depends on it is accurate so an uninstaller does not remove
    the necessary DLL. That said, it won't hurt to simply copy there, as
    long as you keep a copy that you can put back if it does accidently
    get deleted during an uninstall (and given the initial lack of a
    standard installer for Windows, this may happen regardless).
    AbiWord itself should function with any version you wish to use,
    though I would suggest you use the newest one if possible -- other
    applications may or may not be effected by a different version than
    what they installed.

    EA>
    EA> Also, can I run two versions of AbW, if I don't update the directory
    EA> during
    EA> install of the second version? thanks - ed
    EA>
    ...

    Yes, if you install to different directories, you can have as many versions
    of AbiWord installed as you want. The only catch is that the last one
    installed will be the one used by the shell execute (double clicking on a file).

    Do you have Internet Explorer installed? and if so what version?
    Would it be possible for you to provide the version of several other
    DLLs installed on your Win95 system? (email me directly, jeremyd at computer.org)
    and I will give you the list that installer may use and if you need them,
    instructions to find the versions or a program to do the lookup quickly.

    I am still looking for someone to help me track down this problem,
    if no one helps, it will continue to exist until a random change fixes it!
    (or someone else does so) as I repeat, it does not occur for me on a
    plain Windows 95b install.

    Thank you,
    Jeremy Davis

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