Microsoft KB Archive/154045

= INFO: Setup Cannot Access the Source File ..\include\ALGORITHM =

Article ID: 154045

Article Last Modified on 10/24/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q154045



SUMMARY
When installing Visual C++ 4.2, you may get several missing file/directory messages. The first message usually is:

"Setup cannot access the source file X:\MSDEV\include\ALGORITHM"

where X is the CD-ROM drive letter or a network mapped CD-ROM drive letter.

Other messages include missing files such as EXCEPTION, FUNCTIONAL, STDEXCEPT, STREAMBUF, and STRSTREAM. All of them are in X:\MSDEV\include directory.



MORE INFORMATION
The error messages are generated if a real-mode CD-ROM driver is used to install Visual C++ 4.2 in Windows 95. Real-mode CD-ROM drivers cannot access long file names. You may also see these error messages if you run the Visual C++ setup program across the network and the network driver does not support long file names.

The file names listed above are more than eight characters long. These files are the header files for the Standard C++ Library. In order to make these files available on your system, you may want to copy them manually from CD-ROM to the \msdev\include directory on your hard drive. Note that you are able to see only the abbreviated file names if the driver you are using supports only 8.3 file names. You can rename the files after you copy them to your hard drive. Below is a table that lists the abbreviated file names and the full file names:   05/28/96  01:04a            47,951 ALGORI~1        algorithm 06/04/96 07:03p             1,860 EXCEPT~1        exception 05/28/96 01:05a             9,656 FUNCTI~1        functional 05/28/96 01:05a             2,970 STDEXC~1        stdexcept 05/28/96 01:05a             6,087 STREAM~1        streambuf 05/28/96 01:05a             3,813 STRSTR~1        strstream

