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From: sam...
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 12:41

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In article <1992May14.0...@talon.ucs.orst.edu>, van...@kepler.ME.ORST.EDU (Eddie Munster) writes...
>In article <presiden....@sfu.ca> pres...@fraser.sfu.ca (Pat Presidente) writes:
>>After getting Windows 3.0, I tried running Links from inside Windows
>>and got the message to exit completely from Windows before running it.
>>After installing Windows 3.1, I tred again - this time it started up
>>nicely. Unfortunately, as I proceeded into the game the screen redraw
>>was unbearably slow.

This is an acknowledged timing problem with certain non-windows apps
(it's covered in one of the win3.1 readme files).  The fix involves 
a change to system(win?).ini which I can't remember off the top of
my head. The problem is that this change can mess up background file
xfers...

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