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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: SYSEDIT.EXE
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Date: 24 May 91 14:55:46 GMT

cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken) writes:

>I didn't see this in the FAQ, so:  just how do you get SYSEDIT to run?  I've
>tried to add it to a group, but it comes up as a DOS icon.  I've tried 
>creating a .PIF.  Either way, I get an app error when I try to run it.  Could
>someone please mail me the solution?  TIA.

Sounds strange.  Every system I've added it to, all I needed to do was to
create a new icon (FILE/NEW from the program manager menu) and point the
properties box to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSEDIT.EXE and everything works.

If you are getting the generic DOS icon I suspect that you don't have a
good copy of the file.  Are you pointing the icon's properites data
to the copy of SYSEDIT.EXE which Windows SETUP placed in the SYSTEM directory?
Are you sure that nobody tried to copy the file directly from the Windows
distribution disks without executing EXPAND?

>BTW, this would be a good one for the FAQ list, if it's not already there.

Agreed.

Joe Morris