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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Problems with PIFs
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.162250.25865@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
References: <1991Apr1.152745.29629@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 16:22:50 GMT
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>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.


Make sure you have a line that says 

Programs = exe com bat pif

in your win.ini file. Its usually about five
lines below the run= and load= lines.


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