Windows XP + UKAW

[Martin Foster]

On the 03.12.05 at 14:26, Michael Heydekamp <my-news at freexp.de> wrote:

> Martin Foster <mf-news at freexp.co.uk> wrote on 03.12.05:

>> On the 03.12.05 at 00:52, Michael Heydekamp <my-news at freexp.de> wrote:

>>> Ehhmm - which FreeXP version are you using, BTW?

>> RC4

>>> There is a problem with RC4 and UKAW because UKAW opens XP.EXE in
>>> R/W mode.  This doesn't work anymore as the former XP.OVR is now an
>>> integral part of XP.EXE.

>> Ah, aha!

> Look at the size of XP.EXE...

Yeah, it's huge!

>>> There is an RC5 test version available (same as RC4 but XP.EXE and
>>> XP.OVR reside as two different files again). See:
>>> ftp://ftp.freexp.de/freexp/test/FXPOVR.ZIP

>> OK, got it now and .....

>>> But this shouldn't be the problem in your case as you would get
>>> different results then (UKAW would complain about a wrong XP
>>> version).

>> ..... that was the problem.

> Did UKAW complain?

It complained about being out of environment space, that's all.

> My impression from your initial post was that it did simply nothing.

Yes, that's right. It sat there doing nothing for around 5 seconds and
then exited.

>> UKAW is now working perfectly again - Pheeeeeeew! ;-)

> I suggest that you use the UKAW patch tool to avoid it's annoying
> header munging:

Got it, thanks.

> After applying it, you should send 'clean' RFC headers as with other
> clients.

OK, I've applied it prior to writing this message so let's see what
happens :)

> Happy FreeXP'ing... :-)

Yes indeed ;-))

I really must update our English support site with all this valuable
information that you've given me. Once again, many thanks.

-- 
Martin

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