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From: derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan)
Subject: Problems with PIFs
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.152745.29629@wubios.wustl.edu>
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
Sender: Derek Morgan
Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 15:27:45 GMT

Apologies if this is appearing for the second time; I didn't get a local
confirmation the first time. I have a problem with Win 3, and PIF files not
working. I have just installed Windows on a Z-386SX, with 3MB of memory.
Windows loaded fine, and seems to work OK, until I try to run a non-Windows
app from either the iconized PIF file, or the PIF file from File Manager. I
get the "No Association Exists for this file" message. If I set the icon to
the .EXE file, it works OK, but I need PIFs for some other things.

Here's the real puzzler; the PIF files that Windows sets up for applications
using Windows Setup don't work either. Word 5.0's PIF gives me the same error.
Any answers, guesses, or "I've seen this before" from anybody are greatly
appreciated. I'm supporting a user who is wondereing why she can't use Windows
3.0 the way she did Win386 2.xx. Progress, I told her. She doesn't believe me.

ZZZZZZZ.  (derek@wubios.wustl.edu)