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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Dos programs under OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.040726.2798@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:07:26 GMT
- References: <16329@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1993Jan10.051935.25691@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <C0Mn6z.81w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <C0Mn6z.81w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >Why do DOS programs sometimes get messed up in OS/2 with write
- >permissions? For instance SLMR can never delete it's own work
- >directory, even though it isn't using it. Telemate can't launch
- >wordperfect, because it gets "access denied."
- >What's the problem? These programs are not being run in the background.
- >There is nothing else using them. They should be totally accessible.
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- I don't know what's going on in your specific examples, but there's a
- utility called DENYNONE which turns off this checking. You can obtain
- this utility via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu -- check the file
- /pub/os2/00Index for location.
-
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