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- From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Getting Rid of MS-Windows after OS/2 install
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.091055@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 08:10:55 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.193843.3311@nlm.nih.gov>
- Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
- Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
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- In article <1992Sep7.193843.3311@nlm.nih.gov>,
- dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
- |> I didn't find this info specifically addressed in the OS/2
- |> 'docs' or in our
- |> faq. I know Win OS/2 doesn't come with 3.0 applets like
- |> notepad or write etc
- |> and the 'auto migration' of those apps just makes program
- |> entry which points
- |> to the actual MS Windows directory and program. Now I
- |> want to get rid of
- |> Windows and retain those applets for Win OS/2. As an
- |> example I tried just
- |> copying notepad.exe to my Win OS/2 directory and pointed
- |> the program entry
- |> to it, but it wants something else, some other file or
- |> something. How is
- |> all this accomplished?
- |>
- |> *I'm simplifying a bit because I actually erased win 3.0
- |> and install 3.1
- |> (not letting it trash my win/os2) and am attempting to
- |> just copy my 'old' 3.0
- |> applets to Win OS/2, since it doesn't seem to like the 3.1
- |> version(s) of those.
-
-
- If you're just copying the files from the win3.0 disks that's
- where you're
- going wrong - you need to use 'expand' on them (on one of the
- win3.0 disks,
- with DOS 5.0 and on one of the OS/2 disks (Number 9 if memory
- serves me
- correctly). Then it'll all work. Don't forget the help
- files.
-
- Extra tip - you can copy the win3.1 winhelp.exe to your
- win-os2 directory if
- you have software such as Excel 4.0 which says it is
- incompatible with the
- win-os2 help system. This gives no problems with win-os2.
-
-
-
- David J Jackson Telephone +44 473 645805
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