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to: TONY LANGDON
from: JIM GITZEN
date: 1997-06-12 07:49:00
subject: Win 3.1 under Warp 4?

 JG>> It seems that periodically I'm forced to do Warp reinstalls for
 JG>> one reason or another, and I'm tired of always losing my Win-OS2
 JG>> setup each time. I'd like to run Win 3.1, and have it always there
 JG>> so I can occasionally use it for DOS, and so it will survive Warp
 JG>> 4 reinstalls.
 JG>> Can this be done?  If so, how?
 TL> ... It is possible to run your existing
 TL> Windows under OS/2.   You have to copy a few OS/2 specific
 TL> executables to the Win 3.1 system (3 or 4 .EXE files from memory),
 TL> and add them alongside the Windows ones (don't overwrite those with
 TL> the same name, they'll be needed for running Windows from DOS!).
 TL> I worked it out by trial and error.  I first copied WIN.COM from
 TL> Win-OS/2 to Windows as WINOS2.COM, executed that in a DOS box,
 TL> noted the error message and copied the next file, and kept
 TL> repeating that until Windows ran under OS/2. :-)
 TL> However, there is an easier way.  You can download the necessary
 TL> files off the Internet.  Interestingly enough, the way to find out
 TL> what to do is to look up DOSEMU, a DOS emulator for Linux.  The
 TL> DOSEMU FAQ has info on where to find the necessary files and how to
 TL> install them. :-)
Thanks for the info/suggestion.
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