On Sun, 12 May 2002 00:01:29 +0000, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:32:58 -0400
>From: howard schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Install win3x programs on win9x?
>
>This is almost a survpc question, since it involves using old software
>on a relatively newer OS:
>
>In principle windows 3x programs are supposed to run on windows 9x OSes.
>However, I wonder how one would go about installing an old win 3x program
>on, say, windows 95? For example, I have the installation disks (floppy
>ones) for a win 3x version of Framemaker. Its win 3x install program
>will not know about the registry and the start up menu or directory,
>but it will find win.ini and system.ini.
>
>The biggest problem will be, it will try to create grp files for a
>windows group, and expect to find progman.exe and progman.ini for that,
>which it will not find. I am not even completely sure an install.exe
>intended to win 3x will execute at all in win 95-- probably not since
>the latter is 32-bit. I do not think it will execute in a win95 dos
>box either, since win 3x programs do not run in real dos mode.
>
>So how would one install such a program in win 9x, so it had a chance to
>run?
>
>------------------------------
Howard,
I run Win3X software all the time on Win95A (OSR1), no problems...except
for the rare occasion when Windows might know of a "32 bit version" being
available and make the suggestion to use it instead. Ususally, the
Installer will skip right through the Program Mangler (hehe) group
stuff...then you can make your own Start Menu shortcut. In fact, I have
found that 16 bit software runs better on Win95 than many of the 32 bit
counterparts! A couple I routinely use are NX for newsgroups, Navroad
HTML viewer, and Webford HTML Editor...I say go for it! FWIW---on my
machine, Program Mangler is still there, as is File Mangler, hehe...
but, if I run Program Mangler all the groups start out as tiny little
top bars of a window, with the name of the group, and the X-[] in the
righthand corner. Maximize this little bar and there's your icons!
C U L8R!
Wiz <{;-)
Wizard57M
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