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- From: syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Yet another Win3.1 Bug.. try this !
- Message-ID: <1403@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:03:18 GMT
- References: <Bx8ox3.J4u@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Sender: news@tdat.teradata.COM
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- In article J4u@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz, cameron@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz () writes:
- >
- >when starting windows from DOS enter a very long sequence of letters
- >after 'win'
- >eg:
- >
- >win aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- >aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- >
- >sequence should wrap to next dos line .. press Return !!!
- >Click OK to the normal message about "aaaaaaa... not found"
- >
- >On all the systems I've tried this .. the program
- >manager loses all its icons..
-
- What do you mean by "losing all its icons"? I just tried it on my 386/20Mhz
- and it behaved as expeted. Program Manager loaded as icon.
-
- >
- >It's a pretty dumb thing to do....but its hard to see
- >how this should affect the program manager..after all
- >its just an invalid filename..
- >
- >hmmm.. maybe it's to get back at people who hit their keyboards.
- >C.
-
- Sang
-
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