On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Like several others, I posted about Mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.6.zip crashing > repeatedly on PLC4.DLL. > > At some point someone said it needed a special DLL (don't remember the > name). Then someone else said no it didn't. >
Hi Jim, Never heard that one. > Someone said an "emx version?" worked much better than the VAC version. > > Now here is where it starts getting confusing. WHAT works better than > what? > AFIK, there hasn't been an EMX version of 0.9.6 posted yet, although Henry Sobotka mentioned he was working on one. In the past, I have found the EMX versions to be very good and they startup much faster than the VACPP versions. > Apparently, the nightlies (mozilla-os2.zip?) are no longer VAC. Yes they are. >Yet > someone said to unzip it over mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.6.zip. Then someone > said the opposite, citing the readme. > I always do a fresh install into an empty directory - like the readme suggests. > OK, you delete the old installation, set up a directory with a bin subdir > in it and unzip Mozilla-0s2.zip into the bin dir. Someone explained that > saying it isn't a full release. >In any case, your now no longer have > either a readme or a warpzfol.cmd. Well, I believe what I said is that it's built differently so that it needs to be unzipped in a \bin directory. But you're right, those two files are missing but ones from the mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.6.zip can be used instead. > > What else doesn't it have? > I don't believe there's anything critical missing, and occasionally it includes has some "extra features" that were weren't supposed to be included. Sometimes the mozilla.ico file is also missing but that can also be copied from another installation. > Is an installation from a nightly supposed to run without anything from a > release or not? I do it all the time. > > Some have said the latest thing out has fixed the PLC4.DLL problem. > Assumedly that is a nightly, since I haven't seen a new release version? > The new nightlies are supposed to incorporate the fix for the PLC4.DLL problem but since I didn't have the problem I have no way of knowing for sure. The problem seemed to occur if the New Times Roman MT30 font wasn't installed on your system. > If that is a nightly, is it enough to have the latest emx? Can I just set > up a MOZILLA with a BIN in it and put a nightly in there? Does the README > no longer apply? Is that why it isn't included in the nightlies? > As I mentioned, the nightlies are the VACPP builds so EMX isn't needed. Just set up a Mozilla\bin directory and unzip the nightly in there preserving the directory structure. Then, double click on mozilla.exe and it should run. BTW, the only part of the directory structure that's important is the \bin subdirectory. In other words, if you want to keep track of different builds you could name your directory MozVac_nightly_1202\bin and it would still work correctly. Ralph
