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[PaulLaidler]

There may well be a problem here but when you do have a successful installation, you will still get the same result when you run ftn95.exe from Windows Explorer. FTN95.exe is basically run from a console command line together with command line switches etc.. Plato and Visual Studio Express provide interfaces for launching FTN95.exe.

[Wilfried Linder]

John-Silver,

I use FTN95 (version 5.50) and Plato (version 4.3.0) on several Windows7 machines (32 and 64 bits) since some years without any problems. In my Start menu I have the entry �Silverfrost�, sub-entry �Silverfrost FTN95� and then the entries �FTN95 Command Prompt�, �Help for FTN95�, �Plato IDE�, �README� and �Salford Diagnostic Tool�. But I never use the Start menu but have prepared a separate folder for all Salford stuff and I always work with Plato.

Hope that helps.
Wilfried

[Robert]

We have had very few reports of installation issues with FTN95 Express. I just tried it on a Windows 7 32-bit system. This is what the default install looks like:



It may need to access the internet - most of the installation is the Visual Studio 2008 shell and that is a black box as far as we are concerned. It struggles to install on Windows 8 unless .NET 3.5 is already installed. It will try to download .NET 3.5 but failed for me (as did the regular Control panel applet).

[Robert]

It states on the website:

"Download FTN95 Express version 5.40 from:
Primary site"

You can easily replace it with the current compiler.

[JohnCampbell]

The following commands are not valid for Win 7_64 OS:
SET PATH=C:\Program Files\Silverfrost\FTN95;%PATH%
SET F95INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Silverfrost\FTN95\Include
SET MOD_PATH=C:\Program Files\Silverfrost\FTN95\Include

The "\Program Files\" should be "\Program Files (x86)\" so either:
your install predates Windows 7 or
you are installing onto a 32 bit OS

Something does not look right with what you are doing ?

[JohnCampbell]

I checked my Win7 64 envirionment settings and they include:

ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
f95include=C:\Program Files (x86)\Silverfrost\FTN95\include
mod_path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Silverfrost\FTN95\include

What might work, if you have some missing is to try modifying FVARS.bat to include:
Set ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
Set FTN95_Dir=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Silverfrost\FTN95
Set f95include=%FTN95_Dir%\include
Set mod_path=%f95include%
Set Path=%FTN95_Dir%;%PATH%