TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: os2
to: Linda Proulx
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-11-15 08:08:23
subject: Re: Installation problem

Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP>      -=> Jack Stein wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 JS> Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Nick Andre:

 LP> I just read somthing that said the installer may have to
 LP> delete or rename autoexec.bak files.  Is that there?  Check
 LP> for the backups of autoexec/config files.

 JS> Autoexec.bat is a DOS file, not an OS/2 file.  OS/2 does not create an
 JS> automatic executable file on install.  If one is needed later, it uses
 JS> it's own auto executable called STARTUP.CMD.

 LP> True.  But according to 'Unleashed' if there is a .bak or
 LP> config backup dos file, it can stop the original install. 
 LP> That's what it says. 

That was a bug in WARP 3 that was there for one day, on the day of it's intial 
release.  You could not buy, or it was difficult to find a copy of that, as
they pulled it and fixed that on the first day.  Don't believe everything you
read in Unleashed.

                                              Jack 
--- timEd/2-B11
140/1
278/111
* Origin: Jack's Free Lunch 4OS2 USR 56k Pgh Pa (412)492-0822 (1:129/171)

SOURCE: echoes via The OS/2 BBS

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.