Re: Re: Problem accessing MS Access MDB on Win98 PC

oh, and Dave works for Microsoft.

Dave Murray < irongut%40paranoia.clara.co.uk">irongutparanoia.clara.co.uk> wrote: Hi Paul,

Installing MDAC would be my attempt at a solution too. After that
failed I would tell the customer that since Win98 hasn't been
supported in any way by MS since July 2006 that my software is not
supported on that OS and he'll need to upgrade. Probably not the
answer you or he are looking for but eventually you have to force
these types of users into the present or you'll find yourself still
supporting Win98 in another 10 years.

You could try pointing out that PC has many security flaws and is
compromising his entire network. When faced with the idea of it
becoming a spam spewing bot (or worse) upgrading should seem like a
good idea to your customer.

Dave Murray
Glasgow, UK

--- In delphi-en%40yahoogroups.com">delphi-enyahoogroups.com, "Paul Bennett&quot; <rm28157...> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I have a bit of a problem with one of my applications. One of our
> customers installed it onto a Windows 98 PC and it promptly failed
> with a 'can't find jet 3.6' error.
>
> As far as I can remember we have tested the application on a Win98 PC
> with no problems, that said when I installed it onto a Win98 PC here
> it failed with the same error message!
>
> I have tried installing MDAC 2.8 (in the hope that it would install
> the missing drivers) but still no good :-( Any ideas would be
> gratefully accepted.
>
> Paul.
>





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Haha actually no I don't, I'm contracting for the NHS atm. In a
previous job I had to put up with customers who were trying to run
unsupported 16 bit label design and printing software on XP. Sometimes
it worked and sometimes it didn't. When it didn't there was no way to
fix it and no way to explain what was going wrong. You could even
ghost the OS and software from a working machine to an identical PC
and sometimes it wouldn't work. So I got very fed up of customers
running ancient kit.

Dave.

Dave Murray
Glasgow, UK

--- In delphi-en%40yahoogroups.com">delphi-enyahoogroups.com, David Smith <djsmith_1998...> wrote:
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> oh, and Dave works for Microsoft.
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