I too hope that the installer works correctly on all versions of Windows
from 95 on up (or at least 98SE to present). Personally, I've still got some
machines with WinME running.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Akbari" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Csound 5 Woes for Csound 5 Newbie


> A potential problem could be that the mechanism with which a user sets
> an environment variable differs on Win2k than on WinXP (which appears
> to be the default deployment target for the Csound5 Windows Installer).
>
> Does the CsoundVST Windows installer implement the mechanism to change
> the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in versions of Windows prior to Microsoft's use
> of the NTFS ?
>
> If not then this page is still relevant and I'm glad it hasn't been
> deleted yet :)
>
> http://www.csounds.com/installing/howtowindows/
>
>
> -David
>
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Istvan Varga wrote:
>
> > On Friday 03 February 2006 15:59, Michael Gogins wrote:
> >
> >> You probably need to define a Windows environment variable
> >> PYTHONPATH that points to the directory where _CsoundVST.dll
> >> is found. Python uses this variable to find _CsoundVST.dll.
> >
> > I assume the installer does set this environment variable ?
> > Looking at csound.nsi suggests that it does.
>
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