cardinfo.dll has problem with readonly yab

[ecsnl]

With eCS RC 5 testing it turned out cardinfo.dll would cause minstall to crash. We traced it back to the fact that it was on CD ROM. This problem also occurs with by giving a attrib +r to cardinfo.dll.

Paul Smedley provided a cardinfo.dll compiled with GCC. According to him this might be an Open Watcom issue.

[Brendan Oakley]

Weird. It used to work. It would be good to have more information about this and the fix.

[Paul Smedley]

Correction - I compiled with the Open Watcom I have installed here (1.7a IIRC) just to see if it made any difference.

[Brendan Oakley]

Well I'm not getting a crash.

Testing with eComStation 1.2R + Uniaud 1.1.4RC6.

Setting 'attrib +r cardinfo.dll' has no effect. I installed Uniaud without problem.

I wrote a CD with the Uniaud 1.1.4RC6 package unzipped, and when I try to install, the only choice it gives me is "No Device". So something isn't working right when it's on a CD, for some reason.

[Brendan Oakley]

The cause for the lack of option to install Uniaud when run from a CD is that pcmunlock.exe was truncated to PCMUNLOC.EXE when I burned it to a CD, so the filename doesn't match audfiles.scr.

Does the eComStation CD also truncate files to 8.3?

[Brendan Oakley]

The eComStation 2.0RC5 CD does not have the pcmunlock.exe file truncated. Users are installing Uniaud from the CD successfully. I cannot reproduce this problem as described. However, in case it is the cause of any consternation at Mensys, I have removed the pcmunlock.exe file from the list of installed files in changeset:374.