jbeta available for Windows J32 and J64.
ibeta unzip failures were because the zip had a file res and unzip failed
when it tried to overwrite an existing folder named res. Thanks to Bill Lam
for figuring this out.
The jbeta installer gives more information about unzip failures.
You will have a similar situation if you try to install jbeta on top of
ibeta (trying to overwrite a file with a folder) and you will see the
extended error report. Or you could just delete the ibeta folder (or rename
out of the way) before doing the jbeta install.
*** Vista - Program Files - JAL ***
A pacman bug in previous releases allowed JAL updates on Vista - Program
Files to update "Virtual Store". Pacman should have detected that admin was
required and insisted that J be run as admin to do the update. The test was
wrong and the update was allowed without admin. The update looks as if it
worked and is usable. But the update is not done in the Program Files
folder. Instead it is done in:
\User\name\AppData\Local\Virtual Store\.......\j602
The old files are still there in "Program Files" and will be seen both other
users. The new files are seen only by the user who did the install. And it
is downhill from there.
If you are a Vista user who insists on installing in Program Files, you
should check to see that no J stuff is in "Virtual Store". Stuff that is
there is most likely JAL updates that went astray because of the bad test
for admin. Delete the "Virtual Store" stuff and do the JAL updates again
with the jbeta.
It is a good idea to check "Virtual Store" periodically to see what else is
sneaking in.
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