[Dxbase] Response to those that think I'm a dummy

[Neal Campbell]

Terry

Thanks for the follow-up.

I haven't seen this "missing MFC.dll" message, has anyone else?

The dlls that were missing before are now in the installer so its all corrected. You didn't solve  the problem by putting them back in the folder, as you said. So, how did  the "mfc.dll" problem get resolved? A mystery to me!

I did not mean to imply you were a dummy as I am sure you are not. You just said the instructions were very confusing and I was sincerely wondering how to make it better.

Its a bit of a lose-lose though, if I make it shorter, someone doesn't have the level of info they need. If I make it longer, its too long and there is always a problem in there. But being confusing is something I should be able to fix!

Thanks again!
Neal
On May 24, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Terry at k8smc.net wrote:

> Ok, I see version 1.10 available, so I download it and unzip into a 
> temporary folder.
> I open the installation PDF file and it only says at beginning 
> installation procedure for DXbase 2007.
> Ok I already have DXbase 2007 so I'm expecting it to say update to 
> Version 1.10, it doesn't.
> So now I browse through the file and find it's 33 pages if I want to 
> print it out and lots of color ink to burn.
> As I'm browsing I see all this stuff about Windows 7.  Keep in mind 
> it doesn't say installation procedure for DXbase Version 1.10 on DOS, 
> WIN 3, XP and Win 7 or what ever at the beginning so I'm not sure.
> 
> So I browse the install procedure a little further and by page 5 it 
> tells me it will install it into a directory C:DXbase 2007 which is 
> where my current program was, but it says I can change it.  So not 
> wanting to take a chance I move my current Folder out of C: and into 
> a back up folder.
> 
> Then I went ahead with the installation and let it do all 
> defaults.  When it was finished I ran it and first thing pops up is:
> 
> "This application has failed to start because mfc.dll was not 
> found.  Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
> 
> At this point I sent my original message, and responses were pretty 
> much slanted at I'm and idiot and can't follow instructions.  BUT 
> some one mentioned follow the instructions to where it says IF YOU 
> ARE USING WINDOWS XP, YOU ARE FINISHED! Congratulations.
> 
> So at this point I removed everything it installed and tried again 
> and it went exactly the same way.  I searched my backed up copy for 
> the mfc.dll and didn't find it.  Then I saw something about missing 
> dlls and downloaded them.  Went to installed them into the C:DXbase 
> folder and found them already there, but let them over write.
> 
> Ok, now at this point I started DXbase again and it allowed me to put 
> in my call sign and what ever and then it told me the program needed 
> fixing.  So I let it prompt me through that and everything then seemed to work.
> 
> I lost some packet commands but had no problem fixing that, but what 
> really seems strange is that it had my K8SMC.mdb and refdata.mdb 
> files already in the folder and working.  Ok, how did it find them? 
> normally one has to put those back into the folder manually.
> 
> Oh well, everything seems to be working fine, my country count still 
> shows 338 worked and 338 confirmed.  No need for anyone to respond, 
> it's working and I'm happy, and I still don't use a CD-Rom, I know 
> which way to point my beam for P5 and BV9
> 
> Terry, K8SMC . . .
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