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Article #12189Re: How come?
From: Karl Boyken
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 13:16
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 13:16
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In article <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp>, tmoody@sjuphil.uucp
(T. Moody) writes...
>I recently ran the Windows 3.0 setup routine to locate Windows
>applications, and an interesting thing happened. It found Microsoft
>Word (*not* Word for Windows) and Brief. The odd thing is that I don't
>have Brief. I have an editor called "Boxer," a shareware program that I
>picked up on CompuServe. Why do you suppose Windows thinks that Boxer
>is Brief?
I've had a similar thing happen with VEdit; Windows think's it's XyWrite.
The answer must be that it _is_ XyWrite, deep in its bowels. It's my
understanding that XyWrite can be licensed to develop other apps--Nota Bene
is another example, I believe.
Windows must use something inside the .EXE file to identify the app, not just
the file name--which raises the interesting (and possibly incriminating)
question of why Windows thinks a shareware program is Brief.
** _My_ views, no one else's--except those I plagiarize. **
Karl Boyken, Project Analyst | "Distant cousins, there's a limited supply,
State Health Registry of Iowa | and we're down to the dozens, and this is why:
Iowa City, IA | big-eyed beans from Venus--oh my, oh my!"
cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu | Captain Beefheart
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ns-mx!pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu!cmdbyk From: cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: How come? Message-ID: <6199@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 24 May 91 13:16:41 GMT References: <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Reply-To: cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu Organization: State Health Registry of Iowa Lines: 24 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS V1.3-4.1