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In <iO143HdBuR3d-pn2-2qDM1XW6nWjL@localhost>, on 04/07/99
   at 06:27 PM, torsten.balle.koefoed@somewhere.dk (Torsten Balle Koefoed) said:

>>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

Have you tried renaming the self-extracting files to *.zip ?

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