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 <i>DRH replies:</i><br>
 I think this problem has been fixed in more recent versions of fossil.
 However, I am away from my office and cannot rebuild until this weekend.
 If you can download the latest code and recompile yourself, it might
 solve your problem.
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+<hr><i>On 2008-06-08 05:08:53 UTC anonymous added:</i><br />
+While  using mingw compilled  Fossil (version [3f706b92a5]  from 2008-06-06) on Win XP SP2,  server console printout produces similar output.
+It spawn empty browser window.
+
+<verbatim>
+c:\soft\bin>fossil new myrep
+fossil: unable to open database file
+
+[sqlite table myrep is created anyway]
+
+c:\soft\bin>fossil ui myrep
+Listening for HTTP requests on TCP port 8080
+Launch webbrowser: start http://127.0.0.1:8080/
+Type Ctrl-C to stop the HTTP server
+Status: 200 OK
+Cache-control: private
+Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
+Content-Length: 311
+
+<p><font color="red">repository does not exists or is in an unreadable directory
+: (null)</font></p><div class="content">
+</div>
+<div class="footer">
+Fossil version no such variable: manifest_version no such variable: manifest_dat
+e<hr><p><font color="red"><b>ERROR: no such variable: manifest_date</b></font></
+p>
+</verbatim>