Installing PBDOS 3.5

[Steve Hutchesson]

This might sound like a silly question but the last time I
installed PBDOS 3.5 was about 4 years ago on a win95 machine.

I have installed it on a legacy box I have that runs dos 6.22
and while the editor, compiler and what looks like all of the
binaries have installed OK, I don't get any examples or help
files installed with it and if I press F1 in the editor, it says
it cannot find the help file.

Does anyone have any idea how to get this stuff installed on a DOS
machine. I had a look at the other disks that install the PDF
reader but I cannot run them on the DOS machine.

Regards,

[email protected]

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[Allen B. Zilbert]

Steve,

I checked my 3.5 installation disk, and according to the readme.doc
file, all of the sample application as well as the compiler are compressed.
During the installation procedure, they should be extracted. The
samples will be placed into a directory called C:\PB35\EXAMPLE.

Allen


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[Tom Hanlin]

The PBINST utility will let you set up paths and other default values.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Steve Hutchesson]

As a true confession of stupidity, I tried unzipping the disk I
had manually and still could not get it going properly and then
I made the great breakthrough, I bothered to have a good look at
the disk I was trying to do the install from and it was the
upgrade that was sent in the post a few years ago so I ratted
through my floppies and found the original install disk which
installed perfectly, ran the upgrade and it now all works properly.

I guess this is a variation of RTFM.

Regards,

[email protected]



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[Amos Vryhof]

Ummm....RTFL? (Read the "Forgotten" Label)

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Amos
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