Regarding my problem upgrading from Version 3 of the OLR to Version 1:I looked into the VPC folder and noticed that the VPCOLR.EXE is dated
22/04/02, so it obviously isn't part of the update you sent, or else
something else is going wrong.
I also noticed an INSTALL.LOG.Looking briefly at it I see that it contains a record both of my Saturday download and the attachment Mike sent. The former seems to have succeeded (and it DID update me to RC1), but the latter, which Mike said was identical in any case, failed to replace the EXE, thus:
Version: Following file not copied.
File Overwrite: C:\VPC\VPCOLR.exe
I assumed this was because it was the same, but maybe it's some version
number check? If version 1.0.0.0 is supposed to be later than version
3.0.4.1 shouldn't it have a higher number?
The really BAD thing about all this, apart from an odd cock-up in version
numbering, is that the Installer itself never once said anything was
wrong -- though it did seem to spend two pages of text telling me about
PERL, which I would have thought it could check.
Anyway, seeing this, I tried a fresh install with the file Mike sent,but this time in a separate
folder, to see if I could get a later EXE. This worked. I copied the later EXE into my normal VPC folder, and hey presto, I'm on 1.0.0.0, I think.
Phew!
Now how do I update to 1.1.0.0? Now that the numbers will, presumably, remain in logical order and not go backwards, I assume this problem won't recur?
Regards,
Pete
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