On 21/10/1999, Andy Roberts said to Linda Proulx about An Inquiring Mind:

AR> 
AR> Very few DOS prgms won't run.  Those that attempt to take direct
AR> control of the hardware, such as Check-It-Pro, a hardware diagostic
AR> tool.  OTOH that is not needed since there are native OS/2 tools for
AR> that purpose.
AR> 
AR> Many Win32S v.1.30+ prgms won't install automatically.  Most prgms
AR> that will run on Win95 but not run on Win3.1 will not run under
AR> Win-OS/2.  

For those using Warp 4, I have just found out that having the latest
available Win32S support (in my case, grabbed from a Borland C++
installation by my sons on our second machine) has seen a lot more Win NT
and Win 9x installation progs run AND successfully install 16bit code into
Win-OS2.

It would seem that a number of commercial developers using say VB,
automatically produce 16-bit code but use a standard (32-bit) installer
wizard. Said IW simply seems to check for level of Win32S, or existence of
32-bit DLLs but will happily carry on with a successful install. 

Still testing, but so far it looks good (isn't that the std reply,
though?)

John Angelico
Co-convener, OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group
also known as: talldad@kepl.com.au

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