At 12:26 PM +0000 7/4/02, dale_gloer wrote:
My guess is that the installer is a 32 bit program. So, I am trying
to figure out how to get W2K to give me a 32bit VDM to run the
installer in. Will update you if I find a solution.
The installer _is_ a 32 bit program.
I don't know much about Windows, so left most of the installer-builder settings as they were. It's got an option called "Generate a 32-bit setup" which is checked by default. The help text is "If checked, a 32 bit setup .exe will be generated. This file will only run on Windows 9.x, Windows NT or Windows 2000." That makes me think that it should be working for you, but it's clearly not.
How does Windows decide whether a .exe file is 32-bit or not? Could something have been mis-set in the .exe that confuses it, either at my end or in transmission? Sourceforge has the file listed as "32-bit Windows", so should have used that Mime-type when downloading it.
Is there another way to install this version?
Not today.
As part of the deal for getting the piece of comm code I needed to talk at the MS100 baud rate on Windows, I had to agree to not allow separate downloading of the parts that make it up. That includes making a .zip file available for download. I can't push too hard, because he's already been quite flexible in letting us use his commercial product. He generously let me use the $50 "one-user" license instead of the $1500 "commercial distribution" license. Investing money for a component of something that's then freely available is interesting economics...
I'm still hoping that we can get a non-commercial implementation of the comm code. But that's also a free-ware project, which means that it moves at its own rate. When it's done, I can make that available like the older versions of DecoderPro, where you copy some files into specific places. But it might be a couple weeks.
Bob
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