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- From: 5692330@mcmail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: MS to 'support' OS/2?
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:45:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.174203.9145@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
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- >> hilmera@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Andrew Hilmer) writes:
- >>
- >> >In article <1992Dec28.105039.6803@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
- >> >>Yes, Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS also runs under OS/2 2.0 (and under
- >> >>earlier versions, back to 1.0). The only difference I can detect
- >> >>is that the "File" menu choice for dropping down to the operating system
- >> >>says "DOS" and "OS/2" respectively when running under the different
- >> >>systems.
- >>
- >> >I suppose that it is too much to hope that W5.5 would support HPFS
- >> >filenames. I would rather hunt around and buy a used copy of Word
- >> >than blow two month's rent on Describe... and I am hoping for a
- >> >perfect solution. Rotsa Ruck, eh?
- >>
- >> I'm pretty certain MS Word 5.5 doesn't support HPFS under OS/2, since
- >> it is *really* an OS/2 1.x program, and I believe HPFS only came in
- >> with 2.0. (Perhaps I'm wrong about that?)
- >>
-
- Wrong, HPFS has been a part of OS/2 since at least version 1.2. I have used
- HPFS from 1.21, 1.3 and 2.0 versions of OS/2. Agreed that Word doesn't
- understand HPFS filenames, M$ programmmers did not code for HPFS filespecs,
- only for FAT filespecs.
-
- >> Also, HPFS isn't mentioned in the docs I have; just memory and the OS
- >> menu choice. (And some trivial stuff about installation.)
- >> Dominik
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