From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: B19: InstallShield reports: "WinExec failed: return=20" after 99% completion 4 May 1998 02:47:32 -0700 Message-ID: <354caa31.1351202.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: <199805010639 DOT XAA09476 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Geoffrey, You wrote: >> This answer isn't an elegant one. Download again. I believe that you >> have a corrupt CDK.EXE. Error 20 has been defined to macro >> ERROR_BAD_UNIT; what ever that means. >While corrupt downloads have been responsible for a lot of the >problems people have had installing b19, some have also been bugs >in InstallShield. Since it's not free software, we can't fix those :-) >but we will be upgrading InstallShield to the latest version which >is supposed to fix some of the nastier bugs. So hopefully things will >be smoother in b20... I really can't understand why you use InstallShield at all. Someone who is able to use Cygwin32 should also be able to unzip an archive and copy the files where he wants them to be. I also experienced that InstallShield enlarges an archive about 900 (senseless) KB. bye Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".