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Re: How come?

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From: cburman
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 14:57
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In article <6199@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken) writes:
> In article <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp>, tmoody@sjuphil.uucp 
> (T. Moody) writes...

>> [Windows Setup finds Brief, only it isn't Brief but an editor called Boxer]
>  [Windows Setup finds XyWrite, only it isn't XyWrite but VEdit]

And: Windows Setup finds Quattro, only it isn't Quattro but QEdit.
 
> 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 guess is that the WinConfusion has something to do with the way Setup
recognizes the progs it feels are worth setting up. But why does this seem to
happen only with editors?

> 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
 
Chris Burman, Senior Failure            Internet: cburman@abo.fi
Philosophy, Abo Akademi University      Earn/Bitnet: cburman@finabo
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Subject: Re: How come?
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Date: 25 May 91 14:57:06 GMT
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