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to: Ron Nicholls
from: Doug Brendish
date: 1997-01-04 13:57:00
subject: Program Ref Objects

On Dec 25 11:13 96, Ron Nicholls of 3:632/309 wrote:

RN> I installed a dos game (Spycraft- in this case) and created 
RN> a Program
RN> Reference Oblect for it on the desktop. When I attempt to 
RN> launch the
RN> game from the icon I get an error box " Cannot start- 'path 
RN> name etc,
RN> check file is OS2 or DOS, file locked or insufficient memory 
RN> and so
RN> on.

Simple fix for this is to make a bat file with the exe name in it. Run the
bat file from the program object.

Doug

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