Hello Stan,

We did have a problem installing VEE 5 on one machine here in QMD.  I am assuming that the problems you are having are on different PC's.  The problem described below fixed our problem.  We can install VEE 5 on all our machines here.  Have you tried this fix?

Regards,

Adam Kohler              Unix Mail:adamk@nessie.sqf.hp.com
Quality Assurance      Phone (UK):  0131 335 7680
Queensferry Microwave Division   
Hewlett-Packard Ltd    Telnet: 313 5680
Station Road                 Mail Stop: SQF5L5D
South Queensferry
West Lothian
EH30 9TG        

[*] BUG IN VEE 5.0 / Installation Problem With COMCAT.DLL

* We have found an installation problem with HP VEE 5.0 under Windows. If you try to install the product, under some circumstances you will get a file error with a value of -51,
and the installation will fail. 

The problem is not due to any defect in the VEE product, but to a bogus system file that may be installed by certain applications. This bogus file can cause other problems as well. 

The file is named "comcat.dll". This file is often installed with installations of Windows software and there may be multiple copies of it installed in a single system. It is appropriate to
do a "Find" under Windows to locate all the copies of "comcat.dll"; the bogus one has revision level 5.0 and is 6 KB in size. 

This bogus file can apparently be installed by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 under certain circumstances. There is a (somewhat cryptic) document on Microsoft's support
database, with the document number Q183370. 

It was also shipped with software for the HPE1432 digitizer from HP Lake Stevens Instrument Division (LSID). In fact, it was reports from LSID that they couldn't install VEE on
any PCs that brought the problem to a boil. 

Just rename the bogus file to "comcat.dzz" or something else that hides it from Windows and try reinstalling VEE. VEE will install its own (correct) copy of "comcat.dll". 

Our lab people suspect there may possibly also be "revision mismatch" problems between "comcat.dll" and "ole32.dll", but right now we have only confirmed problems with the
bogus 6 KB v5.0 "comcat.dll" file. 

-----Original Message-----
From:	MALCOLM_KIRBY@HP-UnitedKingdom-om3.om.hp.com [SMTP:MALCOLM_KIRBY@HP-UnitedKingdom-om3.om.hp.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, December 08, 1998 8:34 AM
To:	adamk@sqf.hp.com
Subject:	FW: VEE install

Hi Adam
Can you help - the word is spreading.

-----Original Message-----
From: rsb-at-sr /HP-UnitedKingdom,mimegw6/dd.HPMEXT1=rsb@sr.hp.com 
Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 8:24 PM
To: kirby, malcolm /HP-UNITEDKINGDOM,om3
Cc: rsb-at-sr /HP-UnitedKingdom,mimegw6/dd.HPMEXT1=rsb@sr.hp.com
Subject: VEE install

Hi Malcolm

I am told that you recently dealt with a VEE install problem similar to what
I am seeing.

In particular, on _some_ machines here I have been unable to install
the released 5.0 (or now 5.01) code. No idea yet what distinguishes
these machine from the many seemingly identical ones that don't have
a problem. Presumably it has to do with versioning of one of the
many dll's or other modules on the system.

Invariably get a "general file transfer error" toward the end of the
installs.

So far MXD has been unable to help, short of asking that I mail
one of the systems to them for diagnosis.

Would you perhaps have any hints that might help?

thanks

Stan Bischof

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Stan Bischof   Hewlett Packard Company   707-577-3994    rsb@sr.hp.com
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