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No, I'm not getting grumpy about it. Life is full of choices, and as one of my choices was to do other things rather than becoming competent at programming file managers, the necessary consequence is that I can only use what other people program. Fair enough!

But you can't please all of the people all of the time. Implementing Unicode support these days usually means that Win98 drops out of the other end. Yes there is Unicows for Win98 but somehow the compilers that implement unicode don't make it work. Well, there are other small problems with FC and Wi...

Mostly 2009 and 2008 work OK in Win98. My problem is with the FTP facility. With both of these versions it works OK on Win2K and above, but gives error messages on Win98, the "parameter is incorrect" message that has featured in another thread. Clearly FTP implementation uses something tha...

Have you tried editing the .ini file so that it reads just \etc rather than G:\etc ?

Having played with FTP connections a bit, it looks as though the error 87 message is a Windows error message when trying to establish the FTP connection.

It also seems specific to Windows 98, so I imagine it is a permanent "feature" of Free Commander from now on!

I am also getting an error message that reads "87 The parameter is incorrect". I cannot find any reference to it in the help file. Any ides on what to do, or where to look for my error?

Many thanks for the link. I'll give it bit of work to do over the next week or so, and let you know whether Win98SE picks a fight with it!

Please forgive a newbie if I am causing grief by asking about older versions, but having trawled around the obvious spots on Marek's web site, and in this forum, I can find no trace of either older versions, or of a policy on them. As Marek points out on his site, the 2009 versions of freeCommander ...