Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!jessica.stanford.edu!aaron From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Barfing up 3.0 apps Message-ID: <1990Aug9.231843.11909@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 90 23:18:43 GMT References: <8685@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> <3793@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <1990Aug8.020846.19494@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: Aaron Wallace Organization: Academic Information Resources Lines: 25 In article <1990Aug8.020846.19494@portia.Stanford.EDU> shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Anne Prisk) writes: >Several people explain that upon trying to run certain apps. they get this >message: > >>> > Cannot find file; check to insure the path and >>> > filename are correct >>> > >Someone speculates that it's cause of a) a beta version, and b) too many >added fonts. Then someone says: >> >>No, I had the same problem with non-beta ver 3.0. I was trying >>to run WINEYES, but got the same errormessage, although the file was >>there. As far as I know, I have only the standard fonts installed. > >Just wanted to say that I am having the exact same problem with WINEYES, >and a few other apps. Hope someone who knows the fix reads this soon! One cause of this error is not having WIN87EM.EXE in the Windows directory. Under Windows 2.xx WIN87EM.EXE was expected in the \WIN (or whatever) directory, but Windows 3.0 puts a WIN87EM.DLL file in the \WIN\SYSTEM directory. The easiest fix is to copy WIN87EM.DLL to WIN87EM.EXE in the appropriate place. Note that using the 2.xx version of WIN87EM.EXE is not recommended... Aaron Wallace