[comp.windows.ms] Running PD applications

jray@cbnewsc.att.com (johnny.r.griffith) (12/06/90)

  Help, please.

  I'm a novice Windows 3.0 user.  I've managed to acquire a few
  Windows applications from an anonymous FTP site, but they refuse
  to run.  They exit after producing a message like:
	This program requires Microsoft Windows

  I have created PIF files for them using the PIF editor, which
  are cloned from an existing PIF file.  I've tried defining them
  as program items in different windows, and have tweaked the
  settings which had suggestive names, to no avail.

  Could someone offer some suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?


  Thanks,
  J.R. Griffith		j.r.griffith@att.com
			jray@ihlpa.att.com
			(708) 979-6767

LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Hubert Lai) (12/06/90)

In article <1990Dec5.162429.864@cbnewsc.att.com>, jray@cbnewsc.att.com
(johnny.r.griffith) says:
>
>  I'm a novice Windows 3.0 user.  I've managed to acquire a few
>  Windows applications from an anonymous FTP site, but they refuse
>  to run.  They exit after producing a message like:
>        This program requires Microsoft Windows

If these reallt are Windows applications, then you should be running them
from Windows, and not from DOS or a DOS box.  Do NOT create PIFs for true
Windows apps.  Instead, install them directly into your Program Manager.
If you prefer to run them without installing them into ProgMan, then bring
up the MS-DOS Executive or File Manager and double-click on the executable.

<=- Hubert

doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) (12/06/90)

No problem.  As several people will tell you, you don't run Windows
programs from the DOS prompt.  You need to run them from within Windows
itself.  You can do this in Win/3 several ways:

1)  From the Program Manager, type alt-F then R (for RUN).  Then type in 
the filename (fully qualified if you're not in the correct directory) of
the program you want to run.

2)  From the File Manager, 2 ways:
	a) The same as 1) above, or
	b) using the graphical representation of your directory, click on
	the directories to open them and then click on the program file
	itself, when it is displayed.


Have fun.

Doug Parsons,
Doug@hparc0.hp.com