Hi All,

I have corrected the following really minor issues:

1. I have replaced
if not exist arch\archetypes (
  w32_collect_arches.bat
)
by
if not exist arch\archetypes call w32_collect_arches.bat
I have removed the parenthesis since it doesn't work under windows 98 (and the w32_collect_arches.bat is always run).
I have added the call statement before w32_collect_arches.bat (without a call statement a called batch will never return to its caller).

2. I don't know if many are still using Windows 98; the batch files won't run when the end of lines is a LF (0x0A) rather than a CRLF (0x0D 0x0A).

To fix this problem, open the batch files with wordpad and just save them.

You may be surprised to hear that quite a few people are still using Windows 98. Looking at the stats for visitors to my website this year, I have even had visitors using Windows 95 and ... wait for it ... Windows 3.x!

And some people are still using Internet Explorer 2.x 

i hear no one is using Windows ME...

i hear no one is using Windows ME...

Actually, more than are using Windows 98, apparently. My stats may not be representative, but for the record they are as follows (ordered by distinct visitors). Not sure what the 'Others' stat represents.

	Operating System	Hits	Visitors	% of Total Visitors
1	Others	28,439	14,519	61.91%
2	Windows XP	94,758	5,257	22.42%
3	Windows Vista	50,956	1,540	6.57%
4	Windows 2000	5,334	689	2.94%
5	Windows NT	3,012	281	1.20%
6	Windows Server 2003	1,662	273	1.16%
7	Windows ME	735	259	1.10%
8	Linux	2,139	197	0.84%
9	Windows 95	775	133	0.57%
10	Mac OS	3,166	118	0.50%
11	Windows 98	2,547	91	0.39%
12	Windows 3.x	186	40	0.17%
13	Windows CE	400	39	0.17%
14	iPhone OS	263	10	0.04%
15	FreeBSD	42	6	0.03%
16	Sun OS	49	1	0.00%
	Total	194,463	23,453	100.00%

probably windows 7 and as far as evilasa's comment on xp being the last properly working OS that microsoft has come out with maybe you should give it a try. if you hurry you can still try a RC of it i believe then decide if you wish to purchase a license for it. its my new favorite OS (been using xp pro for many years) tried vista its rubbish. windows 7 seems to correct all the vista issues and be a quick smooth running OS.

yeah windows 7 is really nice lippy uses it too and he really likes it as well

Finally fixed both issues for the next mapmaker release.

Almost a shame Win98 support is on its way out I suspect...