Re: WPS and Win95 self-extracting files (was: FP 10 and OD 1.5....and OD 2.0?)

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From: Torsten Balle Koefoed
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 00:00

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>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.
>....
>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.

I happens here too, and I would love to see a solution that could 
remove this behaviour.

Yours etc.
  Torsten Balle Koefoed

(Replace servername in address with: writeme<dot>com)

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From: torsten.balle.koefoed@somewhere.dk (Torsten Balle Koefoed)
Subject: Re: WPS and Win95 self-extracting files (was: FP 10 and OD 1.5....and OD 2.0?)
Date: 1999/04/07
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