The following note should replace the Warning in Chapter 2 of the Installation Guide for Adaptive Server Enterprise verison 12.5.4 on Windows platforms.
Before running Adaptive Server version 12.5.4 on Windows
2000 you must update the Windows C run time libraries. You can do
this in one of the following ways:
Install Windows 2000 Support Tools.
Download a patch vcredist.exe referred to in Microsoft Knowledge Base article # 259403. Find the patch the Microsoft Web site.
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.