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- From: rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: aaaaa.exe - Credits
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:08:56 GMT
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- In article <BxAGLw.Hn4@ecf.toronto.edu> murraya@ecf.toronto.edu (MURRAY
- ALEXANDER W) writes:
- :Has this been discussed here before? I happened to execute "ls -la" in the
- :\os2\bitmap directory (the -la being out of habit from heavy Unix usage),
- :and two files, namely aaaaa.exe and aaaaa.met, showed as hidden system
- :files. Curious me, I chmod'ed them to be regular files and ran aaaaa. Lo!
- :Behold! It displays the .met file to fill the desktop and rolls a humungous
- :listing of names up in a window; I would imagine it's a list of developers
- :for the OS.
- :
- :I've never heard this mentioned before; just thought I'd point it out.
- :
- :Is this on everyone's installation? I have GA + a beta 32bit GRE.
-
- You get these files if you install the optional bitmaps. Click on the WPS
- Desktop to select give it the focus, then press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+o to see what
- these files do....
-