Hello All !

On 22-Feb'08 10:50, Minh Van Le wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 >   MVL> Microsoft Installer 3.0 doesn't work on Windows NT I 
 >   MVL> think.

 ac> I never saw the original post, but you can download older 
 ac> versions of 4NT from http://www.4dos.info/.

 MVL> Yeah but they're all shareware versions :)

 ac> On a Win2K+ box, you can also run:

 ac> mkdir c:\temp
 ac> mkdir c:\temp\4nt
 ac> 4nt802.exe /extract:c:\temp\4nt

 MVL> Ooo. This sounds interesting. 

Well, it (hope) was good while it lasted.

I downloaded MSI 2.0 for Windows NT/2000, which installed Ok on Windows NT
4.0 Workstation. 

But it couldn't run the 4nt.exe installation file, claiming some
application error (which I couldn't find in the Event Logs).

So I 

  4nt.exe /extract:c: .

in Windows XP.

Then tried double clicking the 4nt.msi file in Windows NT and got the
following message: 

  4NT will not install on less than Windows 2000

Bummer.

So I try 

  extract /e disk1.cab .

in Windows NT to extract the internal files.

Then tried running the nt.exe file which fails to find .dll files. 

Btw; running nt.exe at this stage works in Windows XP.

So thems the brakes.

Looks like I'll have to use Windows Scripting Host (WSH) for all my magic. 

--- Msged/386 4.30