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- From: ear@wpi.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Access & Help
- Message-ID: <1h8raiINNb0c@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:52:34 GMT
- References: <8222@news.duke.edu>
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- In article <8222@news.duke.edu> eaj@acpub.duke.edu (Edward A. Johnson) writes:
- >I installed MS Access in a WIN-OS/2 session. It appears to work fine
- >except I cannot access (<g>) the help facility. All I get is "This
- >version of help file is not supported" It appears to be an Access error
- >message since its window is labelled "Microsoft Help" superimposed over
- >the WIN-OS/2 Help window. IBM OS/2 tech support doesn't have anything in
- >its DB about the problem. However, "Access" is hardly a specific search
- >string ;=).
- > -Ted-
-
- It may in fact be a bug in Access. According to a trusted source working at
- a major software retail outlet, Microsoft Access was released with many,
- many bugs intact simply because Microsoft wanted to beat some competitor's
- equivalent program to market (don't remember which one, sorry). Supposedly,
- Access even crashed during it's demo at Comdex. Thus, you might just try
- giving Microsoft a ring about the problem.
-
- P.S.- BTW, at the above mentioned software store, I noticed almost an entire
- shelf of new books all about OS/2 ranging from how to use it and optomize
- performance to how to write device drivers for it in C. Needless to say, I
- was impressed.
-
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