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Subject: Re: WLO applets questions
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.230941.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 7 Jun 91 13:09:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.100658.9068@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
> I have downloaded an archiv (wlo-2.lzh) with the OS/2 versions of some
> Windows 3.0 applets and have tested them.
> 
> Question 1: Did anyone successfully run the PBRUSH program? All the
> machine says when I try to run it is "Cannot execute it in OS/2 mode" or
> something similar.

No, with the same message.  I noticed that PBRUSH.DLL is treated differently
to the other dlls, so maybe something is screwy there.

> Question 2: WRITE works but when trying to print something with an ATM
> font and 18pt size I get an output 18pt high but the font width is not
> correct. It looks like 12pt wide only. Any idea?
> 
> All other programs work although a bit slower. And the executables are
> significantly bigger than the Windows 3.0 version. Especially they
> contain a very large stub executable.

They are horrible!  According to my memory usage meter a minimum of
300KB is sucked away each time one of these programs starts.  I found
everything worked (but haven't tried printing) except that terminal
froze everything after ~2 mins and I had to ctrl-alt-del.  I think the smk
programs from my or the nic.funet.fi archive are better integrated into
OS/2.

Can whoever uploaded the wlo archive think about re-archiving the files
with the required sub-directory information?  It was a pain to install
with everything splatted to one directory.

Mark Kosten