Hi Linda,

 PK> The "BLUE" flavour of Windows is only Windows 3.1, it is NOT Windows
 PK> 3.11. However this is not a problem, because the 
 PK> networking support of

 LP> I thought that the Win code in W4W was more stable & that it's not just
 LP> the networking part.

This whole issue is actually quite complicated, however in general terms,
Windows 3.1 is Windows with NO NETWORKING Support. Windows 3.11 is 3.1 WITH
NETWORKING support (W4WG). Because 3.11 was released AFTER 3.1 it included
updates to the base 3.1 code as well. Because OS/2 Warp 3 Connect (BLUE)
includes all the networking required by the Windows environment, none of the
Windows Networking extras are needed or provided, so it really is just a
Win3.1 environment.

The catch with Windows 3.1 or 3.11 is that like a lot of MS S/W you are never
really sure WHICH version of 3.11 you are getting.....;-) Over the years I
have seen at least 3 different sets of Win 3.11 diskettes all labelled as
Win3.11, and by direct comparison it is possible to see that the diskettes
contains some files with different dates and sizes. So it is likely that when
it was released, Win3.11 included updates to the base Win 3.1 code as well as
Networking Support. 
The Windows code supplied with Warp 3 Blue pack was the absolute latest Win
3.1 (or Win 3.11) version available that IBM had, and THEN it was modified to
work better in an OS/2 environment. It is not possible to remove the Windows
environment from OS/2 Warp BLUE pack and have it run by itself, some of the
essential Windows files are modified to work ONLY with OS/2.

I hope this helps to explain things........pk.

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