From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2009-09-22, Stephen Geard  wrote:   
   > Thanks for your help, your experience highlights something that had been   
   > worrying me about copying all of the files on all of the diskettes into   
   > one folder. What happens if there are files of the same name on multiple   
   > diskettes? Clearly, only the last one copied would end up in the   
   > destination folder. For example, say there was a very important   
   > installation file on diskette #2, and a not so important file of the   
   > same name on diskette #17. The one off diskette #17 is the one that   
   > would end up in the destination folder (assuming I copy the diskettes in   
   > numeric order), but it is the one from diskette #2, that the   
   > installation requires.   
      
   Correct, but that is easily to detect. Just copy to separate dirs, and then   
   copy them into one major dir, and see if you get duplicate files warnings.   
      
   > Your suggestion of only installing the core product, without add-ons   
   > should avoid this problem. Thanks.   
      
   IIRC the said 11th disk of BP also had an own install.exe Difference between   
   BP and BP with objects?   
      
   > As far as I am aware the Vista machine I am installing onto is a 32-bit   
   > machine. But I will need to check.   
      
   Keep in mind that 64-bit will mean TPW is doomed. It will take several years   
   still. A free version of Delphi, or Free Pascal might be a good alternative   
   to have a look at, depending on requirements.   
      
   IIRC Vista/Windows7 also limit the amount of DPMI memory for use to 32MB   
   (was 64MB in XP), though I don't know if that applies to win 3.1x binaries.   
      
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