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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.013901.18988@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1jjq5lINN4gj@psun2.hmi.de> <C19D3K.1CH@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:39:01 GMT
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- In article <C19D3K.1CH@brunel.ac.uk> me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
- >Fritsch_Wolfgang (pfr@psun2.hmi.de) wrote:
- >
- >: With the OS/2 2.1 beta installation, it strikes me again that my
- >: sole reason to get Windows with OS/2 is that I need to access my large
- >: card file that has been produced by MS-Win. This seems a large waste
- >: of disk resources (about 8 M).
- >
- >: So, is there somewhere an OS/2 program that allows access to the
- >: Win cardfile data files?
- >
- >: Wolfgang Fritsch
- >: pfr@psun2.hmi.de
- >
- >YES !
- >
- >Get wlo10.zip from hobbes in /pub/os2/all/miscutils.
- >
- >It contains 'ports' of all the win3 applets. Some work better than others
- >(and some not at all...) but I often use Write and Notepad as OS/2 programs.
- >I don't use Cardfile, but I'm sure it worked when I tried it.
- >
- >Hope this helps.
- >
- >Paul
-
- Just to make it perfectly clear...the 2.1beta contains the Windows 3.1
- applets, including the cardfile.
-
- Personally, I had some problems with WLO...for example, Write had a serious
- printing bug (had to do with inability to set margins properly).
-
- I still have to reinstall 2.1WIN to get seamless to work....
-
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