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- From: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Help! Windows.com doesn't work!
- Summary: Help! Windows.com doesn't work
- Keywords: windows.com
- Message-ID: <cchapman.129.715018249@matd.gatech.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:10:49 GMT
- References: <sybesmer.714933756@uther>
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 20
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- In article <sybesmer.714933756@uther> sybesmer@uther.calvin.edu (Eric W Sybesma) writes:
-
- >After reading in PC magazine that I could change the startup screen
- >merely by replacing the vgalogo.rle with another rle file, switching
- >to another video driver in SETUP, and then switching back to my original
- >video driver. After doing this, I get a message that says
- >"Can't run Win.com" (or is it Windows.com?).
- >
-
- Did they mention in the article that the resulting win.com file must
- be less than 64k bytes? By definition, you can't run a .com file that
- is greater than 64k bytes. If the rle file you substituted is too big,
- then the resulting win.com will be too big to run.
-
- Chuck
-
- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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