Hi,
1.0RC1 won't run on win98 because the initial setup complains about a wrong version.inc file.
This is an UTF8 issue as Bermd already found out.
It turns out that the FileOpenUTF8 and FileCreateUTF8 functions bind to Unicode kernel routines on Windows.
I attached a possible solution for this in the bugtracker: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22596
Bart
