Windows 3.0 bug?

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From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Mon, 28 May 1990 00:38

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I'm rather pissed off.  I just tried to print a document using Word
for Windows, and got an error message saying that no ports were defined,
so I could not print.  Upon closer inspection, I found that someone
had stomped all over my win.ini file: it should have been about 15K long
(thanks to all my soft fonts) but it was 673 bytes, with a bunch of binary
garbage in the beginning.  NU was unable to find the old win.ini file
anywhere on disk.  :(

Upon closer inspection, I saw the string "solitair" in the binary data at
the beginning.  I have a suspicion that the (very entertaining) Solitaire
game included with Win3 may have something to do with this calamity.

Now, for the question:  is there any way to generate a new win.ini file
short of re-installing Windows?  I promise I'll back up the new win.ini
file pronto!

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ "i don't even know what street canada is on"               -- al capone ]

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Subject: Windows 3.0 bug?
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