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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS 2.1 Beta. What happened to me.
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:16:10 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan5.154803.27494@news.uiowa.edu>
- Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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- In a previous article, williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) says:
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- >Hi. Here's what I started out with
- >
- >2.0 GA + CSD + Win 3.1 Beta
- >
- >I made diskettes and installed from them (if anyone's interested in Rube
- >Goldberg setups, try this: I stuffed the CDROM in an Iris Indigo, copied
- >the disk info into a directory visible on NFS, and then used a PC with
- >PCNFS to make the disks).
- >
- >Problem 1) I can't run windows at all. seamless, full screen, doesn't matter.
- >All start going and then quit. If I start a full-screen DOS session and then
- >type win, it tells me that it can't execute OS2GDI.EXE.
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- Rename gdi.exe to os2gdi.exe for a quick fix.
- I think you could also hunt through the windows .ini file to find the
- problem.
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