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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven List)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Basic Windows questions
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.170114.9299@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:01:14 GMT
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pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) writes:

>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?

If you're talking about using C or C++, yes it's true.  Using one of the
packages like ToolBook or Actor or Smalltalk is much easier.  Or you can
wait a little while for Borland and others to come out with things like
the Object Windows Library for C++, which should make life much easier.
There are lots of packages out there now that make it a lot easier in
both 3GL, 4GL, and OOP environments.

>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?  

I believe you have to expand the file.  There should be an EXPAND.EXE on
on of the disks.  I don't have the precise details on how to run it, but
it's not too tough...  I believe you just execute "EXPAND sol.exe".
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