From: Tony Williams 

Mike Nice wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:46:14 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote:
>
>
>>I had it fail on one machine too.
>>
>>What's wrong with C:\ if nothing else works?!?!
>
>
>     ... Because it will litter the root directory with files it doesn't clean
up.   I was surprised
> to find several applications had installed pointers to items in the %temp%
folder - application help
> files, etc. and left them there.
>
>    Another difference was that the new folder had no spaces in the name ...
you don't suppose this
> confused things?
>
>     My error was something like "unable to create process
 Settings\Temp\IXP000.TMP\dahotfix.exe>. Reason: in2k\System32\advpack.dll.
>
>    2 points of interest:
>      1.)  the Docume~1 indicates that one of the install processes may be
16-bit
>     2.)  The in2k is not a typo - the correct path should have been \Win2k;
either it wasn't
> included in the message, or there was a path overflow.
>

Want to bet somebody forgot to escape the '\' by using a double '\\'?
Picking the C escape character as a path separator has caused more bugs
than I care to contemplate.

--
Tony

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