Bruce and Group: Sorry about the incomplete message. In regards to getting IFEFFIT to work on Win 98: I changed config.sys per Matt's suggestion: -- that changed the MSDOS error message from "Out of environment space" to "too many parameters" when I hit the desktop icon (this is what I still see when I hit the desktop icons) On Matt's suggestion I then looked at the xxxx.bat files in c:\Program Files\Ifeffit: -- I noticed that they weren't automatically installed, so I ran the "Make bats" application, after which I was able to run all the software if I selected it directly from the c:\Program Files\Ifeffit folder. After reading the last message I added Zhan's command to my autoexec file -- but it hasn't seemed to have made a difference in being able to use the desktop icons on my computer. It does still appear that I can get at the software directly by clicking on it from it's actual folder. I hope this helps. I'm just excited to see that it appears to work! Thanks! Kristine Witkowski Northwestern University
Kristine, Zhang, Thanks for all the reports on installing on Win98. 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. That would be good enough for now. Thanks, --Matt
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