Matt, I tried on my Win98. Installing it into C:\Ifeffit solved this icon not run problem for me. In my case, I believe this make_bats.exe works fine all the time. It generates the right .bat files. I would believe that the two easy steps you listed below works well for me. Hope it is fine for all other Win98 users. Anyway, I am working primarily on Win2K or WinXP now. Thanks for the hard work maintaining this! Zhan

My guess is that make_bats.exe that is supposed to make the *.bat files at the 'Finish installation' step may also be choking on the space in 'C:\Program Files'.

Could one or both of you try installing into 'C:\Ifeffit' instead of 'C:\Program Files\Ifeffit'. That might get the start menu and desktop icons to work better -- and everything else is supposed to work fine. If that doesn't work, we might have to figure out something better.

In the end, it would be really nice to have a small list of steps for getting Ifeffit installed on Win98. If it was as easy as: 1. put SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /P into config.sys 2. run the installer, but install to C:\Ifeffit.

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