Bruce,
My Win98 computer had a hard disk failure last year and I upgraded it to
Win2K. However, I have another 98 running at home. But I don't have the lastest
Ifeffit there. So I just tried this with 1.0074. I will try a latest version
later.
I don't recall anything about the 'out of memory' problem when installing on
my office 98. But this time I do. After changing config.sys. It was gone.
And from my experience here, the answer to the first question below is YES. I
click the icon on desktop, a DOS shell window (minimized) showed up and the
'too many parameters' information given. Then, well, nothing happened then. I
tired put quote on 'C:\Program Files\Ifeffit' in the .bat file. It did not
help. And I tried put double quotes on "C:\Program Files\Ifeffit". It helps
sovle the 'too many parameter' problem. But it seems introduced another
problem. An error message 'bad side "": must be top, bottom, left, or right at
Tk/Widget.pm line 1053' showed and quit. The last thing I did was changing it
to C:\Progra~1\Ifeffit. And it worked. Putting single or double (' or ") around
it would not work again.
And the answer to the second question is YES, if the icons here mean the
'.exe' file. NO for '.bat' file. It was also a NO if I tried to run them from
'Start-->Programs-->Ifeffit-->Athena(or anyother)'. I believe this means the
icons on the desktop point to the correct files (.bat file). And the only
problem is the bat file could not set up the path. This won't be a problem if
the path is sort of a normal DOS path, say shorter than 8 characters and
contains no space.
Zhan
> Zhan: I have the exact opposite question. Was changing the path to
> have the tilde rather than the space required to get the desktop icons
> to work? And do the programs run without editing if you click on the
> icons in the C:\Program Files\Ifeffit folder?
>
> Perhaps someone who is python-savvy and has access to a Win98 machine
> can help out by doing some tests and figuring out what the
> make_bats.py needs to be in order to work correctly on Win9x *as well
> as* the later Windows systems. There are some hints in the README.TXT
> file in the build_setup folder for how make_bats and the installer
> builder all work.
>
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Zhan Zhang
Northwestern University Argonne National Laboratory
Materials Science & Engineering Department Environmental Research Division
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