#ArtExpression Install
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Hi! I just received a copy of ArtExpressions, and when I tried to install
it on my hard drive (actually, when I got to the BME installation on the
installation program), my system GURU'd anit caused a lidation problem on
my hard drive (Key 48257 Bad Header Type).
Thought you'd like to know.
===Ken Roberts
This is a continuation.
I tried to delete the file and could not. I then tried once again to
install the program–when I was installing BME (from the ArtExpression
installer) and it was installing some IFF file, it GURU'd–the GURU code
was 81000005.0026D32C.
Have you had any other problems with the installer program? To help you
out, I'm running a stock A2000 with a GVP Impact 2000 HC8+/2 with a Fujitsu
90 MB HD, two floppies and WB 1.3.
Thanks.
===Ken
This must be a bug in Commodore's Installer. It's not anything we have
written The installer script is just like basic commands, and the Installer
which comes from CBM is the actual program which would have bombed. I'm at
a loss, because we haven't had any similar reports of this.
..005 is a divide by zero error. So it sounds like a basic problem in the
installer. Sorry, I can't really help fix this. I've never heard of the
installer crapping out before.
But AE is easy to install by hand. Just create an Art Expression drawer on
your system. Copy everything to it. (Merge all the AEfonts drawers into one
drawer.) Copy the lib files (Arp.library (for 1.3 only) and IFF.library to
libs. (IFF.library wasn't on the first 1.0 disks, but it's on the newer
ones and will be on your update disk.))
That's all there is to install it. You can run the separate BME installer,
and if that doesn't work, install it by hand. (It's a single file.)
Has anybody else experienced problems with CBM's installer program?
Michael – Soft-Logik Publishing
I'll bet the error is in your installation script – put some debugging
messages around all your division statements, and see… for example, I'd
put some near the place where you're checking which version of the OS the
user has – maybe you didn't test hard enough under 1.3. Also, are you using
a public domain compression program to compress files? It might have
caused the bug. For example, avoid 'lz'.
There are no division statements in our installation script and we are not
uncompressing files. The installation script is extremely simple and I do
not think there is anything in our script which could cause the error. I
suspect that the bug is in the CBM installer. Our installation scripts are
basically "copy, copy, copy, copy…"
Michael – Soft-Logik Publishing
I was only trying to give sympathetic hints… there are more than a few
hidden gotchas and bugs in Installer. I discovered one "division" bug that
appeared when I put more than one line of text in the message of a "where
to install" requester, and I think it only crashed under 1.3.
Thanks. I'll ask the guy who wrote teh script to check that out.
Michael Soft-Logik
Thank you! I'll give it a try.
===Ken Roberts