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Re: UK Scout Aider Software

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From: Iain Begg
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:00
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>Well, after one full hour of connection and download, the 1,7 Mb (!!)
>were here. Then off with unzipping, and an attempt to start the setup
>routine. Alas: "Error: Could not copy ver.dl_ to
>c:\windows\system\ver.dll"
> - and the setup stopped.
>Now what can this be? There is already a file ver.dll in
>c:\windows\system. So SETUP shouldn't insist on copying a new one
>there. However, it seems that one full hour of download of a demo
>version was really badly spent money. On the other hand, it could be
>that I have overseen something that should have been done in an other
>way. I'm sure somebody will give some useful advice.


What John Dexter said is correct.  I have had other people saying 
that they delete the 'ver.dll' first.  This works, and is probably 
simpler.  When I have tested it, I can click OK and it bi-passes this 
error and carries on with the setup.  It all depends, I think, on 
your own individual configuration.  
(I will be looking into this, but I am reluctant to try and modify 
the way that Microsoft have designed their setup routine.) 

Of course I cannot agree that your download time was wasted!!  You
just wait and see!

You may also be interested to know that I am already in the process 
of modifying the date format following an enquiry from the US.  It 
will very shortly be able to accept both 'dd-mm-yy' AND 'mm-dd-yy'.  
At present, it will not allow the US date format.  

If you have any suggestions for your own training scheme, I am open 
to new ideas.  

Cheers,

Iain
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From: Iain Begg <iain-b@dircon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: UK Scout Aider Software
Date: 1996/04/05
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