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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: How come?
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Date: 24 May 91 14:51:25 GMT

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?

The SETUP routine looks at file names and matches at that level only.
It doesn't try to look at the actual file contents.

In my case it said I had Quattro on a disk where it wasn't; it had seen
the Quicken file and matched the file name (Q).

Joe