Thanks for the suggestions on this problem.  There was one suggestion to
copy the CAB files to the hard drive and try an install from there.  The
reinstall worked that way and also fixed the problem with RUNDLL32/TAPI.
Thanks for the help!
Ron Jobe

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From: "Douglas Simmons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] DUN problem and Corrupt CAB file


> At 7/20/2002 01:35 PM, Ron Jobe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I've got two problems with an old Windows 95 system.  The
> first is that when
> I try to start a dial-up session, I get an error in
> RUNDLL32.DLL.  Clicking
> on Details yields an error in different programs, most
> often TAPI.EXE
>
> I also struggled with continuous errors on trying to dial
> out and even re-installs of DUN didn't fix it.  I finally
> located an article that described a corruption in a file
> called "telephon.ini" in Windows 95 which would cause the
> problem.   It is a text file and when I opened it I could
> see where binary characters were in places that they
> shouldn't be in.  The article stated that this file could
> be deleted and it could be re-built using a program file in
> Windows called tapiini.exe.  I re-named the file, double
> clicked on tapiini.exe and sure enough, another
> telephon.ini was built and my problems disappeared.  It is
> some sort of cache which holds information about numbers
> that are, or may be, dialed.



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