[GWhere-discussion] GWhere and Windows 98SE

[Jim Kyle]

Is anyone using GWhere successfully with Win98SE? If so, what's the secret?

I'm using the package (version 0.1.1) nicely under Mandrake 8.1, but there 
it fails to pick up the volume name for each CD that I'm adding to the 
catalog. Neither does it recognize the disk type. I had hopes that 
installing it on a Win98SE machine on my home-office LAN would overcome the 
volume-name problem and make generation of a comprehensive archive catalog 
much simpler.

However, on the Win98SE machine it takes several minutes for the initial 
display to complete and become usable, and during that time the machine is 
totally frozen as if all interrupts have been shut off. Each selection has 
a similar delay. It fails to detect the CD-ROM drive even though I can have 
it open in a background window. The only thing that it DOES do as expected 
is display the catalog created by Mandy 8.1 once I've mapped that machine 
to a Windows drive letter (and put up with the long delay after each mouse 
click).

I suspect the problem is in the gtk runtime package but that's just a guess.

Alternatively if anyone can tell me how to make the Mandy 8.1 installation 
read the Volume Label from the CD so that I can enter it as the disk name, 
that would solve my problem and obviate any need to use the Windows version...



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