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Cameron Parle <cparle@mpx.com.au> wrote in message news:<3B465F0E.52F88863@mpx.com.au>...
> Hello all
> 
> I've just acquired the final versions of Dux Bookshelf, American
> Heritage Dictionary with Roget's Thesaurus II and SimCity Classic.
> 
> They work pretty well under Warp 4 but there are some minor problems
> that require a patch or two.  I know DUX released the patch or patches
> in late '96 or early '97 before they stopped selling the product but I
> can't find an FTP or HTTP site that has these.
> 
> Could some kind soul please give me a known working URL to retrieve
> these patches, or perhaps e-mail them to me as .zip files?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Cameron

You're fortunate indeed to be able to run them under Warp 4 -- since 
some fixpack the Dux apps have been dead, dead, dead for me (and a
number of others).  The patches don't work for everyone (and for some
people they actually make things worse) -- patched or not, frankly I
wouldn't rely on'em because the odds are one day you'll click on them
with nothing to show for it but an ever-expanding POPUPLOG.OS2 log.

Some years back I sent a number of emails reporting all the problems
to the Dux people -- heard from one of them 18 monhts later, the guy
said basically, forget about it, we don't do OS/2 anymore.

Now, what I'd love to see is the Dux apps released open-source, so we
could perhaps compile them to run under EMX.  Hey, don't even release
the databases -- sell those, just let us access them via OS/2...

-Ray T,