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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: programs and program objects
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 02:56:02 GMT
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- I wrote:
-
- > To create this program object, you would 'tear off'
- > a sheet from the Program Object template and fill in the the appropriate
- > blanks. It is such an object that has no physical representation on the
- > drive (as a file) and can be deleted without harming the original.
-
- The original object (an executable on the disk) is called a 'program-file
- object,' and the new WPS object is called a 'program object.' This termin-
- ology is made explicit in the new OS/2 2.0 README dated 10/92, available
- from ftp-os2. Note that the program object can also be created from the
- 'Create Another' menu option for the program-file object.
-
- --
-
- Jack Tan Sattinger's Law:
- jahk@uiuc.edu It works better if you plug it in.
-