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In article <3298ac58.2084568@news.demon.co.uk>, dated Sun, 24 Nov 1996
at 20:27:03, David Spencer <spu@dsds.demon.co.uk> writes
>Chris Salter <chris@loncps.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Now the main reason for following up - a postscript to the RealAudio
>>encoder story. It turns out that the Win95/NT version 2.0+ as currently
>>available from the RealAudio web site will not install under
>>Win3.1/Win32s. I have what I believe to be the latest, an probably final
>>Win32s (Version=1.30.167) but I get a unhandled exception detection
>>fatal error during setup. 
[...]
>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.
>

Thanks to David for the above. For some reason in my case the
'temporary' setup directory, ~rasetup, created by the setup procedure
itself, disappeared following the unhandled exception. I recovered the
files using Norton Unerase and despite some of them being marked as
average condition, the encoding app seems to load OK although I haven't
tried encoding yet. Interestingly, the text readme file which I unerased
states the following...

This version of the RealAudio Encoder is a 32-bit Windows application
that requires 
     * Windows 95 
     * Windows NT 
     * Windows 3.1 with the Win32s extensions.

I have to admit they don't expressly state that the same is true for the
setup! ;-)

Thanks again David.

Chris
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