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From: cburman@abo.fi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How come?
Message-ID: <7566.283e7b42@abo.fi>
Date: 25 May 91 14:57:06 GMT
References: <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp> <6199@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
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In article <6199@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, cmdbyk@pmvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken) writes:
> In article <1991May23.203907.17615@sjuphil.uucp>, tmoody@sjuphil.uucp 
> (T. Moody) writes...

>> [Windows Setup finds Brief, only it isn't Brief but an editor called Boxer]
>  [Windows Setup finds XyWrite, only it isn't XyWrite but VEdit]

And: Windows Setup finds Quattro, only it isn't Quattro but QEdit.
 
> 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.

My guess is that the WinConfusion has something to do with the way Setup
recognizes the progs it feels are worth setting up. But why does this seem to
happen only with editors?

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