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From: cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken)
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Subject: Re: How come?
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Date: 24 May 91 13:16:41 GMT
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In article <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp>, tmoody@sjuphil.uucp 
(T. Moody) writes...

>I recently ran the Windows 3.0 setup routine to locate Windows
>applications, and an interesting thing happened.  It found Microsoft
>Word (*not* Word for Windows) and Brief.  The odd thing is that I don't
>have Brief.  I have an editor called "Boxer," a shareware program that I
>picked up on CompuServe.  Why do you suppose Windows thinks that Boxer
>is Brief?

I've had a similar thing happen with VEdit; Windows think's it's XyWrite.
The answer must be that it _is_ XyWrite, deep in its bowels.  It's my
understanding that XyWrite can be licensed to develop other apps--Nota Bene
is another example, I believe.  

Windows must use something inside the .EXE file to identify the app, not just 
the file name--which raises the interesting (and possibly incriminating) 
question of why Windows thinks a shareware program is Brief.

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