[darcs-users] RE: Win32 archive link bad, and a couple of oddities found in Windows version...

[libogen .]

"Tanksley, William D. Jr." <WILLIAM.D.TANKSLEY.JR at saic.com> wrote:

>I trimmed the link and visited the ftp site that's supposed to hold the
>archive, and found that only the previous version is available.

You need to download darcs-latest-win32.zip dated 2004/03/19.

>Second, I got a crash. I extracted the files into my C:\WINDOWS dir,

My personal preference is to keep non MS Windows OS files in a separate dir 
(c:\windows is messy enough already!) eg. d:\utilities\darcs\

>ran "darcs inittree" in the root directory of my project (omega-roguelike 
>from
>sourceforge, if it matters), "darcs add *.*", "darcs add -r *.*", modified 
>a
>file, then tried to run "darcs record -a". It ran for a little while, then 
>crashed.

Use the darcs.exe from darcs-latest-win32.zip. That should solve your 
problem.

Cheers,
Kieran

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