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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:47:17 -0600
From: Heath Kehoe <hkehoe@budcat.com>
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Subject: Re: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading:    Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe
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Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>
> True enough, and hopefully Heath will send along the patches to fix the
> problem.  It just seems in this case that distributing a locally built
> setup.exe is a bit like hammering a finishing nail with a sledge hammer.
>  Yeah, it works, but it takes far more effort than required to do the
> job. :-)
>
> -Jeremy
>   

I'm not going to send a patch because I only commented out a line of 
code (and I said which file and line number it was, so anyone with the 
source can do the same), and it doesn't fix the root problem: it only 
suppresses an error message popup. It does make setup.exe usable again 
in our environment. Since my users run setup.exe from the network drive, 
all I had to do was drop in the custom one.

I hope my description of what was going on in the code is enough for the 
maintainers to be able to implement a proper fix.

-h


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