Win/OS2 and Win 3.1 Programs Sharing

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2 total messages Started by Antonio Lam Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00

#16994

Author: Antonio Lam
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00

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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.

--
Antonio

P.S.   Please reply to my email id, as I do not 
        visit newsgroups often enough.  Thanks.
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      * Windows is a working environment, not an OS *
      * Running Warp with 48MB ram and 2GB harddisk *
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Re: Win/OS2 and Win 3.1 Programs Sharing

#16995

Author: 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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