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Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:35:48 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: MS Word stopped working...???

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Steven Levine writes:

>
> Where are you booting OS/2 from? D:?

Yes

>
> Given the crosslinks, it sure seems like the MSWord install put something
> on C: and now it's either gone or corrupted.
>

Sounds reasonable, I have no idea what a "crosslink" is.

> I do find it somewhat humorous that in your original post you said nothing
> had really changed lately on your system.
>

Well, I meant the OS/2 systems partition. I don't even think about the Win95
C: partition when I'm using Warp (never conciously use C: and I hardly ever
boot Win95), so I guess I didn't think of it as part of my Warp system, but
I do understand why that's humorous to you.

>>1. I copied share.exe from d:\os2\system to a FAT partition, then booted
>>Win95 and copied it to the root of C:
>
> Probably not useful. See below.
>

> Well, nothing you have done yet will even load share.exe, assuming that's
> the real problem.
>

OK, I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer... too much
"magic" with PC software to suit me, I never know for sure what is being
done FOR or TO me (I'm an old retired mainframe guy), so when it doesn't
work I often have no idea what went wrong.

> Try this:
>
> - Open a DOS fullscreen session
> - Type:
> d:\os2\system\share.exe
> and press Enter
>
> You will probably get an error message, but this is not to correct share
> for a DOS VDM.
>
> Let me know if this is the case. If so, we can get back to working on
> what really changed.

Yeah, error: "Incorrect DOS version"

>
> Which WinOS2 folders? d:\os2\mdos\winos2 and below? Your problem is most
> likely on the C: partition.
>
> Steven
>

I agree, with the reservation that everything seems to be working fine when
I boot Win95... strange if the only thing affected on C: was something used
by the Warp system. But, I can understand that the OfficePro install under
Warp might have placed something on the C: partition, and I certainly did
fiddle with C: while trying to make it larger, so it's certainly possible.

I guess I can re-install OfficePro 4.3 (I've done it before), I just dread
doing it because it's on diskettes and takes forever to install while you
stand idly by waiting to feed it 40 or 50 diskettes, hoping it will get rid
of all the old stuff and work properly when you're done.

Wayne

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