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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Does Windows 3.1 break executables?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.202453.15787@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug31.144511.15531@uwm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:24:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.144511.15531@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer) writes:
- >Does Windows 3.1 somehow modify Windows 3.0 executables so they won't
- >run under OS/2? I've been using several Windows programs in OS/2
- >for quite some time with no problems whatsoever until I mistakenly
- >installed Windows 3.1 on a FAT partition. When I booted DOS
- >and ran Windows 3.1, everything ran perfectly, but then when I went
- >back to OS/2 2.0, I couldn't run any of the Windows programs that
- >I had tried under Windows 3.1. Does Windows 3.1 modify executables
- >so they won't run under OS/2?!?! My only 'solution' to this problem
- >was to reinstall all my Windows programs again under OS/2. Is there
- >anything else I could possibly do?
-
- No, you took a sound approach.
-
- It could happen for a couple reasons. One is that Windows 3.1 might
- delete/move the OLE DLLs such that the Windows application running
- under Win-OS/2 can't find them. Or changes may be made to WIN.INI
- which disrupt the proper functioning of Windows applications under
- Win-OS/2.
-
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