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spu@dsds.demon.co.uk (David Spencer) wrote:


>
>Don't give up yet!  I too have passed this way recently.  Here's the
>full monty.  [Chris, you have already successfully done steps 1 to 3]
>
>(1) Get a nice fresh WIN32S release, just to be on the safe side.  I
>had a yucky old one so I upgraded with the one on the notorious Orange
>CD (run \hotmetal\win32s\disk1\setup.exe)
>
>(2) Get encoder21.exe from the Real Audio site; it'll do just nicely
>
>(3) Ok, run it.  It stuffs up with an unhandled exception.  Don't
>panic - it's just playing into our hands!
>
>(4) This is the clever bit.  The dross left behind in the directory
>you installed it from is exactly what you need.  
>
>(4.1) Copy RA3228_8.DLL and RA3214_4.DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
>
>(4.2) Copy ENCODER.EXE, WAVE_REC.DLL, RAENCODE.HLP, RACUT.EXE,
>RAPASTE.EXE, RAX.EXE, RAUNINST.EXE and README.TXT to C:\RAENCODE (or
>wherever).
>
>(5) Create an icon for ENCODER.EXE in Program Manager (eg, drag it
>from File Manager).
>
>Don't forget to read the README, where it points out that it can't
>cope with ADPCM files.
>
>It seems to run ok-ish, although I had some problems using the player
>after an encode run and needed a reboot.  The bad news is that this is
>another of those programs, like Nutscrape etc, that insist on opening
>the winsock (presumably in case you want to encode to a live stream?)
>so it's nullsocks to the ready fellas.  If you use Trumpet, load that
>first, then run your 'bye' script, then start the encoder.
>
>The Linux version is a bit nicer to install and a lot nicer to run!
>-- 
>Dave Spencer (no longer collective)
>Romford, Essex
>dave@dsds.demon.co.uk            "I think it's a photograph of some tubing"
>http://www.dsds.demon.co.uk/                                  - David Gedge


Brilliant! I just managed to install this into Win3.1/Win32s as per
your instructions. It was fun trying to move the files out of the
temporary directory before the installation program auto-deleted them.
Not all that difficult for an old 'Elite' badge holder though ;)

Many thanks, 

Owe you one,

Alan
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