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- From: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
- Subject: Re: Yet another Win3.1 Bug.. try this !
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.489@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: UIUC SCS
- References: <Bx8ox3.J4u@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1403@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:19:11 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1403@tdat.teradata.COM> syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum) writes:
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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.
-
- True, but after expanding Program Manager it (PM) lacks the icons!
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- This must be a genuine bug!!!
-
- Doug McDonald
-