[fpc-pascal] 2.2.2 INSTALL PROBLEM

[Michael Green]

Hi John!

I saw someone else that posted a similar issue. Are you using Vista? If 
so, this might help:

* **Right-click** (not the usual left-click) the FPC folder from My 
Computer and select "Options" from the drop-down list (bottom entry).

* There are 4 tabs at the top of the new window, one of them says 
"Security". Select that one and click the "Edit..." button (a window may 
pop up, asking for your permission to continue - Yes, continue...).

* There's a list of groups/users and underneith that, a list of access 
rights. First make sure there's a group called "Users" in that first 
list (it should say something like "Users (John-PC\Users)"). If it isn't 
there, click the "Add..." button, in the next window click "Object 
Types.." and select (checkmark) "Users" then hit OK on this and the 
previous window.

* If "Users" is already in the list, highlight it and from the list 
below select the "Full Control" in the "Allow" column - it will 
automatically select "Modify" as well, but will leave "Special 
Permissions" unselected. That;s ok, so leave it as that and click the 
"OK" button. A window will show what it's doing - applying these new 
security settings to the FPC folder and all subfolders / files.

Now remember that in doing so, any user (Standard OR Administrator) on 
your computer can add/edit/delete folders and files in your FPC folder. 
If that's too much of a security risk for you, either upgrade your own 
user account to have Administrator rights (Start -> type "User" and 
select "User Accounts" from the program list -> Select "Change your 
account type") -OR- you can specifically select the FP.CFG file and 
apply these settings as outlined above to just that file instead of the 
whole FPC folder.

Hope that did the trick for you, but use at your own risk ;-)

-- Mike

John Youngquist wrote:
>
> I JUST GOT 2.2.2 TO REPLACE MY 2.2.0 VERSION.
> When I compile a file that worked fine before it aborts immediately 
> WITH A MESSAGE:
>
> "UNABLE TO OPEN:  C:\FPC\2.2.2\BIN\i86-WIN32\fp.cfg
>
> Yet this file exists in this directory. Whats wrong?
>
> THANKS  JY
>
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