[ros-kernel] Application Compatibility List

[Waldo Alvarez Cañizares]

Hi Andrew:
 
Yes Winzip32.exe checks all it's files at startup (it even checks the presence of the .txt s). That's the first file it checks the version. It uses VerQueryValueExA from version.dll to load some version strings from it's dlls and compares that string with some strings it has stored internally. The current version.dll we have in ReactOS (maybe in Wine since that code was taken from there and as I could see there was a comment telling it was untested) returns an empty string and of course WinZip does not like it (is not an antipiracy measure, WinZip does not checks itself against modification, In fact there is not protection at all inside it althought it contains a lot of debugging information, is just a countermeasure to find if there there was a previous installation and those dlls where not updated). I know that fixing it is provably important, but right now I'm in the middle of some things I would like to finish. If nobody fix them, I'll do it but after finishing those other things that I have almost finished (3 big ones) Maybe will take me about 1 week each one if I can find the time and of course I'm not even sure about that.
 
Best Regards
Waldo Alvarez

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From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com on behalf of Andrew Greenwood
Sent: Thu 3/11/2004 5:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Application Compatibility List



Hmm... It was complaining about a WinZip file that had something to do
WZVINFO.DLL or something, which I assume had something to do with WinZip
Version Info?


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From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com on behalf of Andrew Greenwood
Sent: Thu 3/11/2004 2:56 PM
To: ReactOS Kernel List
Subject: [ros-kernel] Application Compatibility List



<snip>

NON-WORKING
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WinZip 8.0:
Unpacks, but requires manual running of SETUP.EXE
Doesn't run, due to error with a WinZip DLL version

The problem with this one is in version.dll in the function VerQueryValueEx

<snip>





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