Metacard 2.4.3 and Windows 95

[Wilhelm Sanke]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002  Dave Cragg <dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk> wrote:



> At 4:35 pm -0600 17/7/02, Scott Raney wrote:
>
> >Please verify that this build runs on Windows 95 without those
> >libraries (our W95 test machine died and no one here can work up any
> >enthusiasm to go used-computer shopping to find a replacement ;-)
> >It'd also be useful to know if the dnsServers() function works on your
> >Windows 95 system with those Windows 98 libraries installed.
> >   Regards,
> >     Scott
> >
> >>  Regards,
> >>
> >>  Wilhelm Sanke
>
> Willhelm, could you let us all know your findings? I think many
> people don't have easy access to virgin Win 95 installations, but
> know our applications are expected to run on such systems.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>

Dear Dave,

Here are my results as of today (which I already sent to Scott):

> During the Beta-test period the need to use a Windows95 computer never

> came up.
>
> I performed the tests with both Build 1 (version of July,16th) and the

> latest Windows version Build 2 (July,17th).
>
> First of all, Build 1 indeed only runs with Windows 95 when all of
those
> listed 98-Dlls are present. Happily I still have one Windows 95
computer
> connected to our university network.
>
> Results:
>
> - Build 1 with the 5 DLLs on Windows 95:
>
> Metacard works without problems
>
> "put the dnsservers" returns the IP addresses of our network
>
> - Build 2 without the DLLs on Windows95:
>
> Metacard can start.
>
> "put the dnsservers" returns nothing.
>
> - Build 2 with the DLLs present on Windows95:
>
> Metacard can start.
>
> "put the dnsservers" produces an error message with the German
> equivalent of "The program performed an illegal operation and will be
> shut down"
>
> - Build 2 on Windows 98:
>
> "put the dnsservers" produces an error message as above, too.

That's the part concerning the Win 95 problem.

Regards,

Wilhelm