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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Beta and Windows binaries
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Date: 5 May 91 07:53:57 GMT
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>Just as an interesting exercise, I tried to figure out the Binary
>Compatability Layer on our copy of the beta 2.0 here at FTP.  I took a
>usual Windows executable (I think it was CLOCK.EXE, either the release
>or the one in the windev samples directory), and tried to run it from
>a full screen session.  Itstead of getting an error message, I got the
>usual PM "snap" from full-screen to PM, and then back to full screen,
>with the message "The system cannot find the file .".  I began to

I think that OS/2 2.0 detect that you try to run a DOS-application, even if
you try to start it from the OS/2 session, and switch to a DOS-session instead.
Probably this is true with Windows programs too.

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se