Hello Archie!

*** 20.10.03 at 20:04, Archie Swan wrote to Martin Foster:

 AS> You wrote on 20.10.03 about "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

 AS>>> One other iffy I seem to have found - this Win32 version
 AS>>> doesn't seem to be managing to automatically sniff out my
 AS>>> archivers, and they've been in my Path statement all the
 AS>>> time on my Win machine. Is yours OK on that score ?

 MF>> Yes but .....

 MF>> Instead of the normal "tick" mark that we're accustomed to, the
 MF>> Windows version indicates that the archiver(s) have been found by
 MF>> a "?" at the right-hand side.

 AS> Aha! - but ......
 AS> On trying the 32bit DOS version as a x-check, no "?" or
"ticks"
 AS> appear.

I've just d/loaded and installed the 3.8.14-19 (DOS32) snapshot and I can  
confirm that there are no "ticks" or "?" here either,
which indicates to  
me that, even though all my archivers are on my path, OpenXP doesn't see  
them.

 AS> And - when I attempted to use the Archive Viewer to look into
 AS> known decent .ZIPs etc., I got loads of error messages suggesting
 AS> that the archives were faulty :(

Same here.

I've noticed something else as well .....

Whilst using OpenXP's built-in HDD navigation tool, my drive letters are  
not listed in the correct order. They are listed thus: B: C: D: F: G: H:  
J: E: A: I:

 AS> In the DOS version's "altering on the fly" of the language
 AS> module, i.e. Config/Options/Language, instead of seeing a choice
 AS> between German and English -
 AS> I got 2 lines of "(c) Peter Mandrella" to choose between.
 AS> Although confusing, it did change the contents of the .RSP file
 AS> OK.

Sorry but that doesn't happen here with the current snapshot, language  
switching now works as it should.

Regards,
Martin

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