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Article #99Re: Help - 500 Nations CD-ROM won't install under Win 3.1
From: Ramsay Beshir
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 00:00
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ramsay@beshir.demon.co.uk (Ramsay Beshir) wrote: >When installing it shows the MS Home logo and appears to go through >it's installation process (installs Win-G, creates a program group and >...WINDOWS\nations.ini without any error messages). > >It then puts up a dialogue box which restarts windows and says that >the next time the program icon is double clicked the program will run >normally. > >It doesn't, a double click starts the install again which runs as >before accept it doesn't create another program group. > >Back at the shop it installed under Win 95 without fault. Got it fixed after much trial and error and slow downloads from the microsoft software library. The CD-ROM installs a bad? vshare.386 dated 24/6/94 size:14933 Replacing this with the latest? microsoft library file WW1000.EXE (vshare.386 dated 28/5/94 size:14933) lets the program run correctly. -- Ramsay Beshir, Lancashire, UK (ramsay@beshir.demon.co.uk)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,d9529577b431179b X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: fda7f,d9529577b431179b X-Google-Attributes: gidfda7f,public X-Google-Thread: fb485,d9529577b431179b X-Google-Attributes: gidfb485,public From: ramsay@beshir.demon.co.uk (Ramsay Beshir) Subject: Re: Help - 500 Nations CD-ROM won't install under Win 3.1 Date: 1995/10/14 Message-ID: <813676727.9126@beshir.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 117557828 x-nntp-posting-host: beshir.demon.co.uk references: <813449660.20758@beshir.demon.co.uk> newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,demon.tech.pc