Unable To Install PBDOS 3.5

[Steve Bouffe]

On my windows XP machine I'm trying to install PB Dos

I've opened a command prompt and types install.

The main screen starts and I page down and agree to the EULA

I get the following message

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 ☼       „                   PowerBASIC 3.5 for DOS                  „     ☼
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 ☼       „         „   Unable to open PB35.PBZ archive file! „         „     ☼
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    „  C:\PB35                                                            „    ☼
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[Mel Bishop]

Just a thought: Did you check to see if your 16-bit subsystem
is installed on xp?


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[Arthur Gomide]

QUOTE]Originally posted by Steve Bouffe:
Unable to open PB35.PBZ archive file![/QUOTE]

Steve,

The PB35.PBZ is a simple .zip type file which the install program open and expand in PB35 directory.

Try contact PB support!


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Arthur Gomide
"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture." -- Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder



[This message has been edited by Arthur Gomide (edited April 03, 2007).]

[Donald Darden]

You probably need to use a tool like WinZIP or WinRAR, or some
other compression/decompression tool that handles ZIP archives
and extract the contents of the ZIP file into some folder, even
c:\PB35. Then you can use Start/Run and enter CMD so that you
have access to the command interface. Position to the folder
where you extracted the files by using the CD (Current Directory)
command, then run the INSTALL program.

The Install program is not designed to find the needed .PBZ file
if it is still inside the initial ZIP file. But it should be able
to find if without difficulty if it is extracted into the same
folder.

You might be able to just click on the INSTALL program from
within Windows by locating it through the My Computer link, but
in this mode, you may miss some informational messages. because
the opened Window will close immediately on exit.

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Old Navy Chief, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, now semi-retired

[Guest]

If you need to unzip a file, as Don suggested, and you need a free zip utility, try:

www.7-zip.org

If you have and XP with SP1 or SP2, sometimes the files autoexec.nt and/or config.nt were moved or erased during these updates. Check your Windows\System32 folder, which should contain both.

If you are missing either of those two files, you can check to see if they are in a Windows\Repair folder. If not, they can be downloaded from the Net.

I'm not saying this is the solution to your particular problem but it may be of some help.

Pete

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[Steve Bouffe]

Thanks.

Looks like my file is corrupt so I'll have to contact support.

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