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From: tporczyk@na.excelan.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Can't setup applications in Windows Setup
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Date: 8 Nov 90 23:51:37 GMT
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In article <5645@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
>In article <7935@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lasky@iris.ucdavis.EDU (Ty Lasky) writes:
>>Windows, and just use the 'setup applications' option in the menu. 
>>Unfortunately, whenever I select this option, I get an "unrecoverable
>>application error", so I have to add every application manually, using
>
>Open up the Program Manager and the File Manager simultaneously.  Find the
>executable files in the File Manager, and just drag them over to a window
>in the Program Manager.  This will automagically create an icon for them

Unfortunately, that doesn't give you the benefits that a well written .pif
will give you. I would recommend that you do spend some time when you set
up your Windows to write .pif's for each of the applications that you will
run under Windows 3.0. I assume that you won't run just Windows apps, but
also DOS stuff. Time spent fine tuning .pif's will pay off.

Tony
tporczyk@novell.com
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