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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:50:22 PST8
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Win 3.1

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In , on 03/09/04
at 12:37 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

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>In <200403091948.i29JmdRb011299@smtp.ucsd.edu>, on 03/09/04
> at 11:48 AM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>>I have a copy of Quicken 98 that runs under Win 3.1.

>>I would like to install it under eCS. If I open a Winos2 window or full
>>screen, and try to run "install.exe." Nothing happens. It just sits there
>>waiting for another command.

>Well, this is old code written when disk drivers were much smaller. I
>suspect available and/or free disk space is confusing the installer. Try
>again with drive with less than 2GB of free space. You may need to point
>TMP and TEMP to this drive. You may also need to use 2gbfix from Hobbes
>to really fool the installer.

>FWIW, I find that DOS and WINOS2 VDMs need different AUTOEXEC setups to
>be happy, so I make extensive use of the DOS_AUTOEXEC property.

OK -- I made some progress.

First of all, I was running the wrong command. After doing a little more
poking around, I found a "Setup.exe" command in one of the subdirectories.
That one worked fine.

Now I am having trouble upgrading the program. Quicken still supports
Quicken 98, and it has a "RC-3" upgrade, which can only be installed
online. Whenever I try to access the online upgrade facility, I get an
error message "unable to locate server." Quicken uses an old 16 bit
version of Internet Explorer, which I installed and can actually use to
connect with the internet. However, it gives repeated error messages about
being unable to find files connected with something called Winsock.

So even tho IE eventually connects with the WWW, it won't let Quicken get
thru to the upgrade site. I think if I can figure out a way to get rid of
the Winsock error messages, I might be able to upgrade the program.

If it would be helpful, I can write down the specific error messages and
post them.

Thanks,
Sandy

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