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From: jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu (Jeff Rife)
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Subject: Re: Re: 386 Enhanced Problem.
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Date: 25 Mar 91 04:36:20 GMT
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In article <1991Mar23.070323.9582@athena.mit.edu> mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes:
>
>The second reason is really what I believe to be a bug in Windows 3.0. Try
>this: instead of include c:\win3 (or equivalent) in your path, first subst
>it to some letter like w: and include w: in your path. Next, try to start up
>sysedit - it should complain with "Unable to open W:\\system.ini" etc. 
>Moreover, if you change settings, for example in File Manager or Program
>Manager, they will be unable to find their .ini files because they are 
>probably looking for W:\\xxx.ini. I don't know why windows attaches the 
>double backslash to these pathnames. In any case, your settings will not be
>saved and will generally lead to confusion. So, don't subst your windows
>directory.
>

It's not a general Windows bug.  It is a bug in the code in those programs.

A Windows program can find out where the Windows directory is, using a
Windows function call.  This is returned in a manner consistent with all DOS
pathnames so that subdirectories do not have a trailing slash, except the
root directory.  The code in SYSEDIT, or PROGMAN, does not check to see if
there is already a trailing backslash, and blindly appends one.

THIS IS BAD CODE, but not a general Windows bug.  It's bit me in DOS
programs, but I guess the MS programmers have never had any bugs before. ;=>

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