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- From: HWHA <HWHA@UNB.CA>
- Subject: Re: Norton Desktop: compat.exe
- Message-ID: <21JAN93.25854920.0033@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>
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- References: <C17r9z.Ksu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1993Jan21.191133.826@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:56:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.191133.826@en.ecn.purdue.edu> cazallis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Todd Cazallis) writes:
- >I have uploaded a patch for NDW 2.0 to Wuarchive, path and filenames
- >
- >/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/compat.exe (from Symantec, 514644 bytes)
- >/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/compat.txt (text file I typed)
- >
- >compat.exe is a compressed file I downloaded from Nortons BBS (one of their
- >highest downloaded files) sometime in December, that contains a patch for your
- >current installation of Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0. This patch can possibly
- >fix some compatability problems between your computer and NDW (i.e. fixes some
- >of the bugs). This is a fairly extensive patch, since it modifies nearly
- >every executable in the NDW directory, and fixed all of the problems I was
- >experiencing from NDW (NDW caused GPF's and would not even allow windows to
- >boot, unless the line "shell=ndw.exe" was changed).
- >
- >I called Symantecs customer support on 1-21-93, and asked if there was any
- >problem uploading this for others to have access, to which the stated there
- >is no problem, except it may not work correctly with NDW versions overseas.
- >
- >Hope this helps some people out.
- >
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- Sounds great. Now can someone tell me the ftp address of Wuarchive.
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- Thanks.
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