[plt-scheme] Difficulties installing on Win-XP

From: Andre van Tonder (andre at het.brown.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 21 20:39:28 EST 2004

I am having the same problem installing v206p1 on two separate, unrelated 
Windows XP machines that both previously had v205 installed
(I did remember to uninstall 205 first).

When the PLT installer window comes up, I get a popup that says
"mred has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the
inconvenience".  I get an error report window that reports an exception
code 0xc0000005 along with a core dump that does not mean much to me.

Since this does not just happen on one isolated machine, I am hoping that
this is a known problem and that a workaround exists.  

I am attaching a copy of the application compatibility file that was
generated during installation.  

Regards
Andre v.T.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<DATABASE>
<EXE NAME="MrEd.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="Finish Install.exe" SIZE="197988"
CHECKSUM="0x433A0474" BIN_FILE_VERSION="202.0.0.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="202.0.0.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="202, 0, 0, 0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="mred" COMPANY_NAME="PLT" PRODUCT_NAME="MrEd"
FILE_VERSION="202, 0, 0, 0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="mred.exe"
INTERNAL_NAME="mred" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright  1995-2002"
VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004"
VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="202.0.0.0"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="202.0.0.0" LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:31"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:31" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States)
[0x409]" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="MrEd.exe" SIZE="196608" CHECKSUM="0x433A0474"
BIN_FILE_VERSION="202.0.0.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="202.0.0.0"
PRODUCT_VERSION="202, 0, 0, 0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="mred" COMPANY_NAME="PLT"
PRODUCT_NAME="MrEd" FILE_VERSION="202, 0, 0, 0"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="mred.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="mred"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright  1995-2002" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0"
VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x1"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="202.0.0.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="202.0.0.0"
LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:31" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:31"
VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="MzScheme.exe" SIZE="81920" CHECKSUM="0xFF51A53"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0"
LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:23:10" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:23:10" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="Uninstall.exe" SIZE="69372" CHECKSUM="0x49D42B4D"
BIN_FILE_VERSION="206.0.0.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="206.0.0.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="PLT Scheme Installer" COMPANY_NAME="PLT"
PRODUCT_NAME="PLT Scheme" FILE_VERSION="206p1" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT=" PLT"
VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="206.0.0.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="206.0.0.0"
LINK_DATE="02/02/2004 15:08:57" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/02/2004 15:08:57"
VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="collects\launcher\mrstart.exe" SIZE="49152"
CHECKSUM="0xA963BB62" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:34:53"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:34:53" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="collects\launcher\mzstart.exe" SIZE="49152"
CHECKSUM="0x54EC62D4" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:34:49"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:34:49" />
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="collects\mzcom\mzcom.exe" SIZE="77824"
CHECKSUM="0xC0F379FB" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.0.1"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="206.0.0.1" PRODUCT_VERSION="206, 0, 0, 1"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="MzCOM Module" PRODUCT_NAME="MzCOM Module"
FILE_VERSION="1, 0, 0, 1" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="MzCOM.EXE"
INTERNAL_NAME="MzCOM" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2000-2004 PLT (Paul
Steckler)" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4"
VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.0.1"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="206.0.0.1" LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:35:17"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:35:17" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States)
[0x409]" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="libmred206p1_0.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="libmred206p1_0.dll" SIZE="1413120"
CHECKSUM="0xE0D7B350" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:26"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/15/2004 20:25:26" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="kernel32.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
    <MATCHING_FILE NAME="kernel32.dll" SIZE="930304" CHECKSUM="0xCBCCF8A9"
BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106"
PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT BASE API
Client DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft
Windows Operating System" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32" INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0"
VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xE7ED3" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.1106" LINK_DATE="08/29/2002 10:40:40"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/29/2002 10:40:40" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States)
[0x409]" />
</EXE>
</DATABASE>




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