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- From: jeffc@netcom.com (Jeff Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Bug or dubious 'feature'?
- Message-ID: <3!6m!1h.jeffc@netcom.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 01:14:39 GMT
- References: <40a-4!C@engin.umich.edu> <l8kq9dINN7t1@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
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- In article <l8kq9dINN7t1@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> hethmon@hydra1f.cs.utk.edu (PAUL HETHMON) writes:
- > (stuff deleted)
- >
- >I would venture to guess that the reason you can't drag and drop
- >a program object to floppy is that once the object is on the floppy
- >and the floppy is removed, the settings and path name to get to
- >that object become meaningless. Unless your multiple systems are set
- >up identical, copying program objects between them is not very useful.
- >A program object on system A will not work on system B, because B is
- >different.
- >
-
- You can't move program objects to a floppy because they're abstract
- objects, which can only reside in OS2.INI. It is impossible for an
- abstract object to be on a floppy, given WPS's design.
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