From: tavares at connix.com (Chris Tavares) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:14:26 -0400 Subject: pythonwin COM Update link out of date References: <7em639$fto$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au> Message-ID: <370F78E2.8EA7433E@connix.com> Content-Length: 1039 X-UID: 30 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