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Re: help! wfw <-> win95 multiplayer

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From: Traveller
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
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Shouldn't be a problem... I have two Win95, one WFW and a MS-DOS machine
all networked...

Arnie wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 09 Feb 1997 10:00:44 -0800, "John, Ellen, Justin, Kristen,
> Courtney" <jcol...@fishnet.net> wrote:
> 
> >>I have one machine running win95, and one running wfw3.11.  Both have
> >>IPX/SPX network with netbios support running as default protocol.
> >>The win95 machine has a cd-rom, the wfw machine does not.  war2 was
> >>installed to the win 95 machine from the cd-rom.  It was also installed
> >>to the wfw machine with the cd-rom mounted as a remote drive.  When
> >>the win95 machine creates a multi-player game, the wfw machine can join
> >>and each machine can send messages to the other, but the start button
> >>on the win95 machine is greyed out.  The wfw machine can click on a
> >>box at the far left, but this toggles an X in the box on both machines.
> >>What do I need to do to get the "Start" button active on the Win95
> >>machine?
> 
> When you do this, the START button should no longer be greyed out.
> Have you watched the start button when this happens? I have 3
> computers netwokred in WIN95 and that is how it works.
> 
> P.S. For some good 2x PUDs and some other files for Warcraft2 see may
> page:
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> Arnie Mahns                           Gresham, Oregon U.S.A
> ma...@qcsn.com
> www.qcsn.com/~mahns/
> _____________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: help! wfw <-> win95  multiplayer
Date: 1997/02/10
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