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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Does Windows 3.1 break executables?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.134345.5111@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:43:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.144511.15531@uwm.edu>
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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?
-
- Which Windows apps do you mean? The Windows applets (like notepad,
- clock, solitare, etc) all get replaced by Windows 3.1 applets when you
- install Windows 3.1. The 3.1 applets are not compatible with WIN-OS2
- (or Windows 3.0).
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