Re: Win/OS2 and Win 3.1 Programs Sharing

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From: Craig Sampson
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00

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Antonio Lam (laman@godzilla.zeta.org.au) wrote:
: I have installed OS/2 Warp Connect Blue Box at home.  Although I should 
: have buy the Red Box instead, IBM Australia says that it is not yet 
: available.  Don't know if it means not at all, or only not in Australia.  
: Anyway, os/2 connect installed flawlessly, with Win/OS2 and DOS support 
: on a HPFS partition.  I have Win3.1 on FAT.  Since some Windows programs 
: installed extra files in the Windows and System directories, I would like 
: to know if I can still all these programs with re-installing them under 
: Win/OS2.  Is there any way that I can synchronise the two windows 
: environments?  Thanks.


I think you may find that running two copies of windows is a bad idea.  
Certainly, if you install any MS products they will install all the dll's 
etc into c:\windows if it exists.

I believe that the warp docs state that it is a non supported option to 
run 2 copies of win.

Craig

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From: csampson@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Craig Sampson)
Subject: Re: Win/OS2 and Win 3.1 Programs Sharing
Date: 1995/10/06
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