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From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Basic Windows questions
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Date: 12 Jun 91 15:04:25 GMT
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I have a few questions regarding MS-Windows.  I have used MS-Windows
just a little bit, and have never programmed anything for this
platform.  My gut feeling is that it must be a real bear to write
MS-Windows applications.

    - Is this true?

    - What about the fact that it runs on top of MS-DOS - isn't this
      inherently limiting?

    - Is memory access beyond 640K slow?

    - Do you crave OS/2?

I also have another question which is, er, kind of embarassing.  RTFM
is an acceptable response.  I erased the solitaire executable from the
windows directory.  I now want to reinstall the game.  I copied the
executable back from the floppy, but it doesn't run.  I get a nasty
error message which tells me I should shut down Windows.  What do I
have to do to get this thing working again?  

Thanks!

    Peter

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