ANN: Win32 Installer - new beta

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Sun Oct 10 14:57:02 EDT 1999


Burt wrote:
> 
> > Trying to install Beta 03 (Installer_b_03.exe) causes an
> > illegal operation (invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL)
> > on my machine running Windows 98.

Thanks to Burt, Darrell and "SqueezeKey" for their 
responsiveness. You'd think I'd know by now that Windows 
can mangle the case of filenames in highly imaginative ways.

http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/install.html now points 
to the right beta page, and rev a of the beta: 
Installer_b_03a.exe.

(GetModuleFileName returns the case-preserved name on NT, 
and all upper case on Win9x. Meanwhile, in updating my 
starship pages, Samba - probably Window's fault - lower 
cases all the names when I copy to my Linux box. Then, 
despite the fact that HTML is case-insensitive, links served 
from starship are case sensitive; so I frequently have to fix file 
names twice before they work!).


- Gordon




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