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Date:Mon Jul 23 08:42:09 1999 
Subject:Re: Problem with windows version of free poplog 
From:Al Slater 
Volume-ID:990723.02 

Aaron Sloman (A.NOSPAM.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:

: I had a query from Martin Eales <mjeales@leibniz.demon.co.uk>

: He wrote
: | I have tried installing the Windows version of Poplog with
: | notable lack of success. This is on a standard Windows 98
: | system having unpacked the distribution file using Winzip.
: |
: | The installation starts OK and processes DISK1 normally. After
: | this it requests the path to DISK2 and whatever path is given
: | (including the correct one) it reports "setup could not find a
: | file on the specified path or disk".
: |
: | I wonder if you could confirm for me that the distribution file
: | definitely installs on Windows 98. I think the archive file
: | downloaded properly (having unpacked it it looks ok, each DISK
: | directory apart from the first contains a Pop155.n file of about
: | 1370 Kb).
: |

: I don't normally use PCs, and I know nothing about PC installation
: procedures.

: I tried installing the PC version of Poplog by first using gunzip and
: tar to extract the files, on a unix machine, then on a PC ran the
: setup.exe in DISK1, which worked.

: I later uninstalled it and tried again with winzip and it didn't work,
: with the same symptom as above. But I assumed I had done something
: wrong, and gave up.

: Maybe winzip has bugs? I know nothing about it.

: Since I cannot offer any help will anyone with PC experience who has
: ideas about this please post comp.lang.pop for the benefit of others.

Same problem here - winzip wouldn't touch it, gzip -d on a unix
box first and then ran it through MKS tookit tar to extract, thereafter
disk1/setup worked fine. There's free versions of gzip and tar kicking
around for Windows that would do equally well I suspect..

al.
(not speaking for HP..)