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Re: KSIGN installer problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Thu Aug 28 14:14:59 1997

In-Reply-To: <199708281736.NAA06945@CAPUCCINO.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:14:34 -0400
To: Gerald I Isaacson <gii@MIT.EDU>, Jim Repa <REPA@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU

Testing on a Win95 machine with no previous traces of ksign showed that the
ksign8c installer works (win95 must do a toupper() on the environment
variables for DOS compatibility).  The same installer still works on NT,
doing the right things with the krb5.ini file.

I think we're set.

Rob

At 1:36 PM -0400 8/28/97, Gerald I Isaacson wrote:
>I found the problem with the krb5.ini file.  It turns out that the
>environment variables are case sensitive in NT and I was using WINDIR
>as the variable rather than windir.  I don't have access to a Win95 system so
>it should be tested against a Win and win95 system to see if the lower case
>variable works in those systems.  If it doesn't I can put a check in for NT
>and use separate Get variables depending on the system.
>
>The lastest version is ksign8c in installers/win3/ksign/giitest
>
>Sorry  about that
>
>Jerry


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