Re: OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5

From	nospam_2017@efbe.prima.de
Newsgroups	openwatcom.users.c_cpp
Subject	Re: OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5
Date	2017-12-31 19:35 +0100
Message-ID	<fasp00F6gtqU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Am 31.12.2017 um 13:17 schrieb Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson:
> Dear OpenWatcom,
> 
> I downloaded the 1.9 installer for OS/2 and when I run it on ArcaOS 5,
> all I get is
> 
>   The file setup.inf cannot be found.

I just downloaded open-watcom-c-os2-1.9.exe on Ubuntu and inspected the
file with the Archive Manager. The file setup.inf is in the root of the
zipfile. As I don't have an ArcaOs installation at the moment, I can't
test it further.

> Does this mean my download is corrupt, or is this a problem with ArcaOS
> itself?

Did you download in binary? My file starts with

hd -n 208  Downloads/open-watcom-c-os2-1.9.exe
0000 4d 5a 80 00 01 00 00 00  04 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 |MZ..............|
0010 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........@.......|
0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 90 00 00 00 |................|
0040 0e 1f ba 0e 00 b4 09 cd  21 b8 01 4c cd 21 54 68 |........!..L.!Th|
0050 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 6e  20 4f 53 2f 32 20 33 32 |is is an OS/2 32|
0060 2d 62 69 74 20 50 72 65  73 65 6e 74 61 74 69 6f |-bit Presentatio|
0070 6e 20 4d 61 6e 61 67 65  72 20 65 78 65 63 75 74 |n Manager execut|
0080 61 62 6c 65 0d 0a 24 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |able..$.........|
0090 4c 58 00 00 00 00 00 00  02 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |LX..............|
00a0 00 03 00 00 59 00 00 00  02 00 00 00 b4 80 02 00 |....Y...........|
00b0 03 00 00 00 b0 ea 00 00  00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00c0 f4 13 00 00 00 00 00 00  95 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00d0

CU/2
Frank

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OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5 Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2017-12-31 20:17 +0800
  Re: OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5 nospam_2017@efbe.prima.de - 2017-12-31 19:35 +0100
  Re: OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5 Dave Yeo <daveryeo@gmail.com> - 2017-12-31 22:28 -0800
    Re: OS/2 Installer Fails on ArcaOS 5 Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2018-01-01 20:38 +0800

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