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Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:33:37 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Runtime-TaxAct

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It's just a data point. Install seems to work. Neither LMB on the
executable or dropping it on a "Innoteked" object results in a
functional program. That is all the post was intended to convey.

The first problem is the same one John has; TaxAct can't find it's data
file so it closes. The file is in the same directory as the execucatable.

Ray

Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Most OS/2 users seem to assume the rest of the OS/2 community is
> clairvoyant so, like a typical OS/2 user, Ray omitted quite a bit of
> context.
>
> At last Saturday's SCOUG meeting Mark Abramowitz gave a presentation on
> how to use the Innotek runtime for applications other than those provided
> by Innotek (i.e. Acrobat, Java 1.4 etc.).
>
> One way to do this is to drop the file object fom the Windows app's
> setup.exe on the Acrobat object created by the Innotek Acrobat install.
> This is all standard OS/2 drag and drop functionailty. The result is
> setup.exe starts under control of the Innotek runtime. If all goes well,
> the app will install and run. It may or may not run better than it does
> under an Odin install.
>
> I guess Ray is now saying that the install appeared to run fine, but now
> he does not know how to start the installed application. What he needs to
> do is figure out the name of the installed Windows executable and drop it
> on the Acrobat object. Of course, he may have already done this and had
> it fail, but my mind reading skills are limited.
>
> HTH,
>
> Steven
>

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