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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Buglet in 'migrate applications'
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:29:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.082903.26106@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- Lines: 35
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- I have had problems with various PM programs through several versions of OS/2
- (GA, beta, SP, b2.1). I had put it down to buggy shareware....which may still
- be the case.
-
- The latest example is this:
-
- I migrated a program called MAGNIFY.EXE to the desktop. The first time I ran
- it, I got the little magnifying glass and the viewing window just fine (you
- can save what you magnify as a .bmp file if you want).
-
- The second time I tried to run it when I double-cliccked on the Magnify icon
- all I got was the Window List......
-
- I happened to be on the phone at the time to my local IBM rep and he said it
- worked fine for him.....must be my non-IBM hardware :-). I asked him how he
- had installed it on his machine and he said he did NOT use the migrate
- applications....
-
- So....I dragged a program templat on to th desktop and installed it that way
- (giving drive:\path\program.nam).
-
- It runs just fine now. I had the same problem with PMGlobe32 on the GA
- version.....but installed using the templates it works just fine! I now recall
- several programs i have junked because of this....
-
- There is obviously some sort of problem with the Migrate Applications function
- and OS/2 progams.....or the programs cause MigApp some sort of heart-ache.
-
- Steve
-
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