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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:43:04, Markus Quandt 
<quandt@wiso-r610.wiso.uni-koeln.de> wrote:

�> > So, this is definitely a 'feature' of the WPS that has ugly
�> > consequences when it comes across those now common self-extracting
�> > files. I've not observed this with normal Win32 executables yet, but
�> > that could be due to lack of opportunity :-).
�> 
�> Maybe I've missed something in this discussion.  The WPS must be told
�> explicitly _not_ to try executing .exe files during 'reading' or
�> 'display'.  Other wise it _will_ try to execute them, and it will pull
�> the whole file into memory in order to do that.  Being a Win95 program,
�> the system upchucks and often crashes.
�
�Well, I think yes, you did miss something. But I lead you on the
�wrong path by talking about 'displaying' files. What I mean is
�displaying a directory's contents via the WPS - I don't hope that the
�WPS tries to execute each and any file that sits in a folder that it
�displays :-). If that directory, or in WPS speak, that folder,
�contains self-extracting Win32 files, the folder contents are
�displayed, but while icons for the files are appearing on the screen,
�the harddisk goes crazy and doesn't stop until memory of about the
�file size has been consumened. Nothing happens on the screen during
�that time (in particular, no error messages, and no trap info is
�written to popuplog.os2). Finally, when the disk stops grinding, the
�Win32 executable - rather its symbol :-) - is displayed with is
�embedded icon, and memory usage drops to normal.
�
�By the way, I have no problems with normal Win32 executables crashing
�the system if I erronously try executing them (by double click on its
�icon or hitting enter - yes, I do know that the default action of the
�WPS is to execute executables...). They just produce an error message
�about incorrect Win32 version, or DOS fault something, and that's it.
�
�I find it amazing that noone else is seeing this, I'm not aware of
�anything unusual about my configuration, and I recall having seen
�this for a long time.

It's the same here... I just write it off to MS weirdness and forget 
about it... at least until I download the next win32 only .exe file:)

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