Will/Irma Herzog wrote at 981007 MMDigest in answer to my proposals:

>> Indeed you can play RealAudio v5 on a Win v3.1x platforms -
>> RealNetworks Inc. (http://real.com) offers  RealPlayer v5.0.0.32
>> (16bit), which you can use standalone or as a plugin to your
>> web-browser.

> I have tried this, and have talked with RealAudio's help people until
> they admitted that they couldn't get it to work either.  So have you
> actually done it??

I have installed it here on 12/26/1997; as I do not have neither
sources of RealAudio software nor of the Windows v.3.1x system I guess
that maybe you must have the Win32s-extensions in order to run it.

And Hal Davis wrote at 981008 MMDigest:

> Am I  missing something?
> I'm running Windows 3.11 and Real Audio 5.0.
> What's the problem?

with comments from Jody Kravitz

> [   Are you running on a Pentium machine ?  What speed ?

Well, I am running them on a Pentium 133 MHz machine with 64 MB of RAM.

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 [ Perhaps the "Win32s" extensions are the key here.  There's a wonderful
 [ solitaire game that comes with the "Win32s" extension to Windows 3.11
 [ which they provide as a "test" to see if you installed it right...
 [ Thanks for the suggestion.  The "Win32s" extension can be downloaded
 [ from a variety of FTP "mirror sites".  An easy way to find them is
 [ to use
 [         http://www.shareware.com/
 [
 [ and use the search string "win32s"  and select the "Win3.1" platform.
 [
 [ Jody