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From: "Adam Parrott" <parrottsoft@geocities.com>
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Subject: On the Craft Extension.
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Greetings.
Instead of a weekly digest this week, I only saw one topic worthy of
any mention that caught my attention (nice wording, eh?)
It's on the Craft extension. What he said is partially true. So, to
clear up any misunderstandings, heres the deal:
I recieved a coverdisk from Chris (Evans) several months ago that
contained the Craft extension on it. Thought I would try it. So, when
I un .dms'ed the Craft file and put it on a disk, I ran the
installer. Come to find out, after it asked for my name and gave me a
registration code, it said "hang on. Lemme write something to disk".
After that, it told me to reboot. I did, and, since the installer
program was the only command in the startup-sequence, it ran the
installer again, only THIS time, it popped up with the Craft logo and
then quit.
Well, at this point I was thoroughly confused, as it said that it
would, ahem, "install" the Craft extension. It did not do this
however. It, instead, wrote my name and registration info to a file
in the "data/" directory which contains 8 files in all, all named
"Data" + 0-7. It wrote this information to the first file, "Data0",
which appeared to be the extension itself, as it was reasonably the
size of an extension (29k, Amcaf is much larger), so I assumed this
might be the extension.
I tried installing it, guessing through all of the slots on the
Extension list, but no avail. I am still unable to get it to install
and I have arrived at the conclusion that this file either IS NOT the
extension, or IT IS and the installer program was supporse to do
something to this file and it didn't (install it is what I mean! :)
Several conclusions have been suggested, as the file needs to be
split, it needs to be uncompressed (I don't agree with this one) and
so on. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to mess with it unless
someone can give me a solution.
Oh, btw, in case you're wondering about those other 7 data files, I
have no idea what they are and can't do anything with them either,
although they appear to be pointer or data files for the Extension.
Again, I'm not sure.
Be sure to check on my website in the next copule of days for the
finishing of the other half of my website! The About, Info, and News
areas should be finished within that time, and, some updated
information on the Cafe engine and Eventuator (the game I'm writing
that will use the Cafe engine) will be updated, as well as the Cafe
engine specs (and a slot for it on the products page as well) will be
