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Article #106Re: FP22 Breaks WinOS/2 !!! Any fixes, suggestions?
From: Derek Morton
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00
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I had to install fp22 twice to get mine to work, after that all is well pentium 66, 32mb, 730mb scsi, 2.1gb scsi, scsi cd, scsi zip drive win/os2. Derek In article <5114v4$2h50@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> igonzal@ibm.net writes: >From: igonzal@ibm.net >Subject: FP22 Breaks WinOS/2 !!! Any fixes, suggestions? >Date: 9 Sep 1996 13:09:56 GMT >I posted 4 weeks ago about installing WordPro beta (which required intall of >FP20 or 21), amongst a few other programs. After this my desktop was totally >screwed up with icons not executing (just throwing up a "setting" option). >It seemed so bad that I decided: >(i) to totally reformat c: drive and reinstall OS/2 Warp Connect from CD. >(ii) (since my previous level of FPack had been 17 and it was no longer >available > from the IBM Sydney BBS, I took on FP22) and Installed FP22. >After which my desktop objects linked to WinOS/2 don't work. I was also told >that IBM does not support Fixpacks. >Does this mean I have to re-install, or back out a Fixpack to vanilla (since 17 >isn't available) or just go Win'95?? What the hell, if I have to re-install, >why >not try Win'95 ??? >Does anyone have any suggestions for rescuing Warp? Can they guarantee Merlin >will not be the same?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,838ffc964a964c69 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,838ffc964a964c69 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public From: derekm@tbsa.com.au (Derek Morton) Subject: Re: FP22 Breaks WinOS/2 !!! Any fixes, suggestions? Date: 1996/09/10 Message-ID: <derekm.1080.00211789@tbsa.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 180099807 references: <5114v4$2h50@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> organization: Talkback Systems Australia newsgroups: comp.os.os2.bugs,aus.computers.os2