installing open watcom on Windows 7

Alex

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Oct 17, 2011, 8:25:52 PM10/17/11

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Hello,

I am attempting to install Open Watcom on my Windows 7 box (i.e. run
the "open-watcom-c-win32-1.9.exe") and the installer immediately
complains "The file setup.inf cannot be found."
Has anybody experienced this before?
Thank you,
Alex

Peter C. Chapin

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Oct 18, 2011, 6:30:44 AM10/18/11

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I'm not sure what to suggest but I can tell you that it worked for me. I
realize that isn't too helpful. Perhaps someone else can say more.

Peter

Swifty

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Oct 18, 2011, 9:14:19 AM10/18/11

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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:52 -0700 (PDT), Alex <amo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>the installer immediately
>complains "The file setup.inf cannot be found."
>Has anybody experienced this before?

I've seen such problems fixed by right clicking the installer, and
selecting "Run as Administrator" (or something like that; I'm still XP
based, but I lurk in Win7 groups to see how others are faring)

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Lynn McGuire

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Oct 18, 2011, 11:20:33 AM10/18/11

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Nope. I am running OW extensively (F77, C and C++) on
Windows 7 x64. I do not have to install as administrator
but I did have to click yes that this app was OK to install.

Lynn

Peter C. Chapin

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Oct 18, 2011, 6:20:08 PM10/18/11

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On 2011-10-18 11:20, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> Nope. I am running OW extensively (F77, C and C++) on
> Windows 7 x64. I do not have to install as administrator
> but I did have to click yes that this app was OK to install.

That sounds right. The installer should be set up to use UAC to request
having its privilege increased.

Peter

Kevin G. Rhoads

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Oct 18, 2011, 8:31:26 PM10/18/11

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Make sure the path from whic h you install as well as the target path
HAVE NO SPACES or other "funny" characters in them.

Alex

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Oct 19, 2011, 1:26:12 PM10/19/11

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Follow-up:

I tried to download the installer (1.9) from other mirror sites and found an installer which works on my Windows PC. I got the installer which works here:
http://openwatcom.mirror.fr/
(the file is open-watcom-c-win32-1.9.exe)
The original installer (which does not install for me) I got here:
http://openwatcom.mirrors.pair.com/
(the file is open-watcom-c-win32-1.9.exe)
The two files (open-watcom-c-win32-1.9.exe) have a different size (by almost 12000 bytes), which makes me think they are different. Anyway, only one works for me.

Thank you for all previous replies.
Alex

Peter C. Chapin

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Oct 20, 2011, 8:07:25 AM10/20/11

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Thanks for the information. It might be a mirroring malfunction. I
wonder if the problem has already corrected itself.

Peter

Christof Meerwald

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Oct 20, 2011, 8:36:50 AM10/20/11

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What program did you use to download the installer?

The files are identical on both mirrors, except that the HTTP
Content-type header is set differently:

Content-Type: application/x-msdos-program
Last-Modified: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:38:58 GMT
Content-Length: 84012543

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:38:58 GMT
Content-Length: 84012543

So the only thing I could think of is that your download program got
confused and treated the file as text (instead of binary).

There is also no indication (from the master server logs) that
anything has changed in the past few days.

Christof

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Alex

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Oct 20, 2011, 1:08:46 PM10/20/11

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I used HTTP for download and I think I used the Chrome browser. I don't think the browser confused the binary with a text file, because if it did, I couldn't have run the installer at all. I could run the installer, it started a GUI but stopped short of giving me the first prompt to agree to installing Open Watcom, instead it popped up a dialog box complaining that it could not find the "setup.inf" file.

Alex