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- From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Subject: Re: Trouble with Excel after SP
- Message-ID: <18NOV199213430965@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:43:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.165820.24977@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
- >In article <9211172327@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- >>That must be a 2.1 specific problem. Excel 4.0 is running on my machine
- >>with no problems whatsoever. However, I'm worried that Msoft will
- >>sneak in code in a future release designed to torpedo OS/2 as it has
- >>been claimed they did with earlier versions of DOS to break Lotus 123.
- >
- >This will necesarilly cause problems. Excel versions prior to 3.0 were
- >meant for Windows version 2.x, and cause problems with 3.x. As a
- >matter of fact, Windows 3.0 would give you a warning if you tried to
- >run Excel 2.1 under it in standard or enhanced mode.
- >
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- Microsoft offered a maintenance release of Excel (Version 2.1c) when
- Windows 3.0 came out that addressed this problem. It was provided free
- of charge (disks only). I am using v2.1c under Winos2 without any
- problems.
-
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- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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