Win95: "Corrupt intallation detected." - cause known, solution needed

Jeff Shannon jeff at ccvcorp.com
Mon Aug 27 15:10:25 EDT 2001


Bengt Richter wrote:

> Or were you thinking of the subset of problems unaffected
> by byte length (yet perhaps checkable with a length number) ?

One example that leaps immediately to mind--text vs binary mode LF/CRLF mangling.
This has a *very* high probability of killing any executable regardless of its
length.  And yes, the solution to this specific example is simply user education,
but still...

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International





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