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From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
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Subject: Re: Cardfile compatible with MS-Windows Cardfile?
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Date: 18 Feb 91 18:30:23 GMT
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In article <314.27bfb565@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>I understood that MS has ported all of their little utils to os/2 using
>their software migration kit.  Not that I've SEEN any of them, mind you.  If
>you find them, would you post their location?
 
These are available from at least one of the BBS's listed in the
Microsoft Systems Journal.  I downloaded them all (several megabytes worth),
but haven't posted them anywhere else because they are TOTAL JUNK. 
 
Several of them wouldn't run at all on my system, a vanilla PS/2 mod 70
with IBM's 1.2 SE.  Those that would run looked terrible.  And all of them
caused various strange and unacceptable behaviour (such as somehow
causing mouse double-clicks to no longer work), which required reboots 
to fix. 

These were posted as a companion to an MSJ article extolling the 
advantages of using the SMK to port to OS/2.   They aren't a very good
advertisement for it. 
 


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