Hi Linda,

 PK> Thats right, BLUE pack contains Windows WITHIN 
 PK> OS/2, RED pack allows an
 PK> existing Windows 3.1 environment to be run from within OS/2. I ALWAYS
 PK> used the BLUE version, the RED version is too easy to corrupt.

 LP> In what way. 

To allow Windows to run under OS/2, OS/2 needs to make small changes to some
of the Windows files. Any time you run Windows programs when Windows runs is
running under OS/2, OS/2 makes sure that anything that modifies the Windows
environment is accomodated so that it can also run when Windows is run under
OS/2. 

HOWEVER, if those same chages are made in a DOS/Windows environment, OS/2 is
not aware of them and this MAY lead to problems when you next run Windows
under OS/2. 

This is the problem using "RED PACK", it can be upset by too many potential
fingers getting into the pie. "BLUE PACK" does not suffer this "problem",
because a native DOS environment can't "fiddle" with things without OS/2
knowing about it.

 LP> Also what about 3.11 & the blue flavour?

The "BLUE" flavour of Windows is only Windows 3.1, it is NOT Windows 3.11.
However this is not a problem, because the networking support of 3.11 is
accomodated by the Networking support of OS/2 (which is more efficient
anyway). You just need to establish your Networking connections under OS/2
first BEFORE you start up the Windows environment. In this case all the
network drives look just like Local drives to Win-OS/2...

I hope this helps...........pk.


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