I had the same problem which I solved -- winzip doesn't seem to bother
extracting files of 0 bytes in length -- if you have a look inside the
archive you'll see that each 'DiskN' subdirectory has a diskid file of
length 0 bytes (I forget the exact name, and I don't have it to hand --
but you'll see it). So its a pain but just create the approriate files by
hand in the appropriate directory and all will be, as they say, hunky
dory.
I was trying some performance timings with the Windows version and sadly
systime() always seems to return 0 ...
Tnx for the shift to open source -- I first saw Pop about 25 years ago
running under the George OS on an ICL machine -- loved it .. tastes great,
less filling ..
Tnx
Alan Littleford
Aaron Sloman 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.
>
> Thanks.
> Aaron
> ===
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