Issue 12788 - Installation of 1.1rc on Win 98 aborted for lack of UNICOWS.DLL
Summary: Installation of 1.1rc on Win 98 aborted for lack of UNICOWS.DLL
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC
Hardware: PC Windows 98
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 1.1
Assignee: Martin Hollmichel
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Keywords:
: 16800 16889 16981 16984 16986 17095 17096 17100 17311 17345 17441 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-03-28 16:30 UTC by jzakiya
Modified: 2004-02-07 10:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description jzakiya 2003-03-28 16:30:10 UTC 
I attempted to install yesterday (Th Mar 27, 2003) OO 1.1b on my Win 98 system.
The installer gave the message that it could not find UNICOWS.DLL, and
would not allow the install to continue when I clicked on "ignore".
I installed the same build yesterday on a Win 2000 system with no problem.

Today (F Mar 28, 2003) I attempted to find the file UNICOWS.DLL on my Win 2000
machine at work, but a file search came up empty.

What's up!!

Jabari
Comment 1 quetschke 2003-03-28 22:43:26 UTC 
(Copied answer from issue 11523)
Please have a look at the system requirements or at the readme:
" The Microsoft Layer for Unicode - unicows.dll - is a runtime
requirement for Windows 95/98/ME (not for NT/2000/XP). The file
"unicows.dll" (versions 1.0.3590.0 or 1.0.3665.0) has to be downloaded
and installed in the system or windows directory (i.e.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM or C:\WINDOWS, respectively). A self-extracting file
is available for download at 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/Redist/1.0/W9XMe/EN-US/unicows.exe.
For technical details see 
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=116287&listName=dev
 and 
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?dcID=515&action=download."
Comment 2 quetschke 2003-03-28 22:44:08 UTC 
Close
Comment 3 jzakiya 2003-03-28 23:45:17 UTC 
Thanks!

Downloaded the file at work and will take it home and load
it on my Win 98 machine.
Comment 4 stx123 2003-07-15 16:35:33 UTC 
reopening
Comment 5 stx123 2003-07-15 16:37:02 UTC 
Would you take care of the issue)
Comment 6 stx123 2003-07-15 19:37:34 UTC 
*** Issue 16889 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 Martin Hollmichel 2003-07-16 06:04:22 UTC 
committed to ooo11rc2
Comment 8 sander_traveling 2003-07-16 16:16:26 UTC 
*** Issue 16800 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 stx123 2003-07-16 21:21:22 UTC 
*** Issue 16984 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 10 stx123 2003-07-16 21:22:10 UTC 
*** Issue 16981 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 Olaf Felka 2003-07-17 08:32:48 UTC 
*** Issue 16986 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 andyp 2003-07-19 19:00:07 UTC 
The download link for unicows is not valid either here or in the
installation instructions.  typing unicows into the microsoft download
thing doesn't find it (bizarrely), typing unicode does.  Until it
changes again try.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/7/5/b75eace3-00e2-4aa0-9a6f-0b6882c71642/unicows.exe
Comment 13 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 09:04:28 UTC 
*** Issue 17096 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 14 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 09:04:33 UTC 
*** Issue 17100 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 15 Olaf Felka 2003-07-23 15:32:20 UTC 
*** Issue 17311 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 16 Olaf Felka 2003-07-24 08:38:13 UTC 
*** Issue 17345 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 17 Olaf Felka 2003-07-28 08:35:26 UTC 
*** Issue 17441 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 18 Martin Hollmichel 2004-02-07 10:07:26 UTC 
mark as verified.
Comment 19 Martin Hollmichel 2004-02-07 10:09:24 UTC 
close issue.