From: Andrew Lynch <lynch@cci.de>
Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued...
Date: 1998/02/04
Date: 1998-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34D81CD3.513@cci.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.886561299@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> We haven't been able to duplicate these problems so far, and
> we have run GDB on a variety of Win95 machines. One observation is
> that we are running the latest version of Win95 on pretty much all
> machines, not the broken version you can buy in stores, so perhaps
> that is one variable.
The problem is that it is so easy to break any version of Win95,
simply by installing and deinstalling software. Do you know which
application placed which version of which DLL in your Windows
directory..?
This gets even worse with the international versions. Say my German
version of Win95 has FOO.DLL version 2 in German. What do I do if
an installation wants to replace that with FOO.DLL version 1 English?
(At least it is kind enough to ask) Something is bound to go wrong
somewhere, whichever choice I make.
If you want your application to run on all Win95 machines I guess
you might just install any system files your application needs in
the required versions and bugger whatever was in there before...
(at least *your* application is going to work)
This seems to be the approach taken by some vendors.
Andrew.
P.S. As for GDB: works fine on NT at work, but not on 95 at home
("original" September 95 German Win95 with every other DLL screwed
by some installed application)
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-31 0:00 GDB Woes Continued wanker
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-02 0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch [this message]
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-04 0:00 ` nA edisA Nick Roberts
1998-02-02 0:00 ` GDB Woes Continued Martin C. Carlisle
1998-02-03 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-02-02 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` wanker
1998-02-02 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-03 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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