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Re: BonusPak upgrade destabilizes systems

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From: Dan Kanagy
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4c3t71$585@hippo.shef.ac.uk>,
kusogari@shef.ac.uk (Earl H. Kinmonth) wrote:
>I have observed the following decidely unfriendly behaviour in
>attempting to install the BonusPak upgrade for OS2 3.0 Japanese.  During
>the course of installation, two files fpwwps.dll and fpwrec.dll are
>installed.  As soon as this is done, the installation hangs and a series
>of messages start that the system was unable to load a segment for
>FPWWPS -> FPWREC.10.  These messages come every 15-30 seconds and
>completely destablize the system.  Rebooting does not help.  The two
>dlls must be removed to stop the problem.

This wasn't my experience with installing the upgrade for IBMWorks.  
I followed the procedures described in the readme file to first
completely uninstall the old version of IBMWorks before installing the
upgrade.  The new install was flawless in my case.

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From: dkanagy@gol.com (Dan Kanagy)
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Date: 1996/01/04
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