This release has been tested on Windows 2000 SP1 and NT4 with SP6a, 4S4C has not been tested and will not work on Windows 9x (95, 98, 98SE, ME). There are no current plans to support Windows 9x, however if enough people ask for it, then I'll look into it (although why anyone would want to deploy server applications on Windows 9x is beyond me). The HTTP listener requires IIS (4.0 or 5.0) to be installed and working. The SMTP Listener only works on Windows 2000, and requires that the SMTP Service be installed and working.
The 4S4C installer uses Microsoft's Windows Installer v1.1. If you are running Windows 2000, then this is already installed. If you are running NT4, then you might already have Windows Installer installed (Office 2000 & the Platform SDK both use it). If you don't have Windows Installer, you will need to install this first, grab a copy from here (1,465Kb).
To install 4S4C, double click the downloaded 4s4c_1.2.msi file, and follow the instructions, assuming a default install, it will of installed the following directory tree (In <ProgramFiles>\SimonFell)
4s4c This contains the core 4S4C components
\Docs A copy of this set of documentation
\HTTP The ASP based HTTP listener
\SMTP The Windows 2000 SMTP Service based SMTP listener (Only installs on Windows 2000)
\Samples
\Server The demo server component, all the samples use this
\interop_tests
\RopeClient Using the Microsoft ROPE Toolkit
\ApacheSoap Using the Apache SOAP Java Toolkit
\PerlClient Using DevelopMentor's Perl toolkit
\dotNet Using Microsoft's DotNet preview