Re: Cartes du Ciel

From: Chris L Peterson (clp_at_alumni.caltech.edu)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:01:25 GMT

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:02:03 -0700, "starlord" <starlord@despammed.com> wrote:

>What you all missed, I had CdC working on THIS machine just 3 months ago
>when I had the old hard drive running in it. That drive failed, I replaced
>it with a bigger and faster hard drive. Did nothing to the OS nor the BIOS,
>but the last time I installed CdC, the set up file had the old style setup
>screen ( like so many other programs ). Now it has the look of things
>written for windows xp and this is what happens:
>
>I shut down all extra files, virus protect, cd burner, popup, etc.
>
>I open screen to "Programs" ( having already unziped file)
>
>I double click on cdc setup.exe a small image appers on screen with a bar
>that shows something being decomparessed or something, bar fills up, image
>just sits there and nothing more is done.
>
>Now I'm not the greatest computer user, but I like to think that in the 23
>years I've been a computer user, ( starting with an T/S-1000, all my Ataris
>and now these ram hog windows machines ) that I've a level above total know
>nothing.

It isn't obvious that the CdC installer actually does anything other than
decompress and copy files (that is, I don't think it registers any DLLs or
writes to the registry). So you could try just opening the exe file with WinZIP
and extracting all the files to the appropriate directories. I just tried this
on my machine and it seemed to work fine, both with the base installation
(cdcbase.exe) and with the full installation (cdcinst.exe).

Where are you getting a file called "cdc setup.exe" or "setup.exe"? I don't see
a file by either of those names in the CdC downloads.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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