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| Re: IDL & Windows 3.1 [message #7737 is a reply to message #7654] |
Fri, 20 December 1996 00:00  |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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Bill Brown <brown@zephyr.meteo.mcgill.ca> wrote in article
<32B85D32.41C6@zephyr.meteo.mcgill.ca>...
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> I'm having problems with setting up IDL on a 486 running Windows 3.1.
> I've got past the 1st stage okay (ie, extracted & created the setup),
> but when I try to run setup from windows I get :
> "File Sharing Required,
> You must have file sharing enabled to install and execute this Win32
> application. ..."
Boy, this brings back old memories! DOS had a device driver called
SHARE.EXE that allowed applications to lock or share files in multitasking
systems like Windows 3.x and DESQVIEW (remember DESQVIEW?). To enable it
add a line like the following to CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE
Better still get a file called VSHARE.386. This came with Windows for
Workgroups 3.11 and may be available at ftp.microsoft.com. It implements
the same facilities as a Windows Virtual Device Driver. It is implemented
with line like the following in the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI:
device=vshare.386
> Will IDL only work with 32 bits?
> Or is there some fix (or something really obvious I'm missing)?
The current version of IDL uses the Win32S API. This is a subset of the
full Win32 API which is available in Win 95 & Win NT. Win32S support can be
installed under Win 3.1 & I think IDL Setup does this.
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Mark Hadfield NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi)
PO Box 14-901
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz Wellington, New Zealand
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