From: tavares at connix.com (Chris Tavares)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:14:26 -0400
Subject: pythonwin COM Update link out of date
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Mark Hammond wrote:

> Bernhard Reiter wrote in message ...
> >http://www.python.org/ftp/python/pythonwin/pwindex.html#oadist
> >
> >Gives a bad link to the MS  Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q164529.
> >The link is bad and I cannot relocate the article with the search
> >engine on that site and other methods... :(
> >
> >The closest I could get was:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q139/4/32.asp
> >from
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/downloads/LNP195.asp
> >
> >Hmmmm.... is there a potential danger in installing oadist.exe?
>
> There _shouldnt_ be any danger!
>
> These days it is getting quite unnecessary.  If you have (I believe) IE4 or
> Office 97, you are pretty up-to-date, and that includes many PCs these days.
>
> You could try installing the Python stuff, and see if it works.  Also, see
> my other post this morning as to why the install may fail - try this out
> first.
>
> Mark.

Another option is to download DCOM for Win95 - that'll get the user up to date
and then some!

-Chris






