Comments on: Anu’s blog entry for the week ending 11 Nov 2011 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/ News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Thu, 20 Dec 2018 02:45:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Michael Goodwin http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/#comment-2849 Michael Goodwin Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:19:29 +0000 http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/#comment-2849 2.85 has a serious bug that is preventing distribution of my collection. The OLD 2001 setup.exe in the windows folder will not work on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. When you use the export your collection to a DVD procedure it includes this old 2001 setup.exe file. This setup file simply will not work on modern Windows software. In fact the Windows folder contains a number of old programs that you should consider updating. I include a list below but for sure the 2001 setup.exe needs to be replaced before Greenstone will work on modern 64 bit software. I think it is dangerous for a developer to leave these old programs in their software if newer ones are available. No telling what evil lurks in the bowels of these OLD files as I found out with Windows 7 64 bit. setup.exe 4/19/2001 setpw.exe 5/17/2001 tar.exe 10/10/2001 unzip.exe 10/10/2001 bunzip2.exe 10/10/2001 bzip2.exe 10/10/2001 gunzip.exe 10/10/2001 gzip.exe 10/11/2001 pdftohtml.exe 7/2/2004 pptextract.exe 9/23/2005 pptextract.frm 9/23/2005 pptextract.vbp 9/23/2005 pptextract.vbw 9/23/2005 2.85 has a serious bug that is preventing distribution of my collection. The OLD 2001 setup.exe in the windows folder will not work on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. When you use the export your collection to a DVD procedure it includes this old 2001 setup.exe file. This setup file simply will not work on modern Windows software. In fact the Windows folder contains a number of old programs that you should consider updating. I include a list below but for sure the 2001 setup.exe needs to be replaced before Greenstone will work on modern 64 bit software. I think it is dangerous for a developer to leave these old programs in their software if newer ones are available. No telling what evil lurks in the bowels of these OLD files as I found out with Windows 7 64 bit.

setup.exe 4/19/2001
setpw.exe 5/17/2001
tar.exe 10/10/2001
unzip.exe 10/10/2001
bunzip2.exe 10/10/2001
bzip2.exe 10/10/2001
gunzip.exe 10/10/2001
gzip.exe 10/11/2001
pdftohtml.exe 7/2/2004
pptextract.exe 9/23/2005
pptextract.frm 9/23/2005
pptextract.vbp 9/23/2005
pptextract.vbw 9/23/2005

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