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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. WPSam ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- WPSam version 1.1
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- the Workplace Shell Administration Program
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- (C) Noller & Breining Software, 1993
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- Author: Bernhard Budnik
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- Internet: os2b@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
- Compuserve: 100101,3201
- Fido-net: 2:246/1406
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- WPSam is an extension to the Workplace Shell of OS/2 that enables you to
- maintain a set of different desktop settings on your PC. You may switch between
- these Workplace Shells during one session (i. e. without restarting your PC).
- You even don't have to stop running programs.
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- The different sets of Workplace Shell settings may be protected by passwords.
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- A lot of applications are imagineable for this program:
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- o One can create different desktops for different jobs he has to carry out on a
- single workstation.
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- o A PC might belong to different users and each of them has a different taste
- of a nice Workplace Shell.
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- o It is even possible to hold a private Workplace Shell on a network server for
- each user in this network. And each of these users can get his private shell
- on every PC in this network.
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- NOTE: This is the first release of SAM that runs on the OS/2 Workplace shell.
- So there are a lot of features missing. The basic function of WPSam, namely the
- administration of different Workplace Shell settings on your desktop is running
- completely. So enjoy it's actual features and if you are missing some, please
- read the list of planned features. If you miss one, please don't hesitate to
- contact us.
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- We, Klaus Breining, Markus Noller and Bernhard Budnik, distribute common
- written software under the name Noller & Breining Software. Although it is our
- attempt, to release only full functional and thoroughly tested programs to the
- public, a bug may always creep in. If you find any errors, please report them
- to us.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 1. Open a fullscreen or windowed session.
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- 2. Call the REXX-procedure 'REGISTER'.
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- If a version of WPSam has already been installed on the PC, you will see an
- error message. This is, because OS/2 write-protects DLL-files, that are in
- use by the operation system and thus can't be overwritten.
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- In this case:
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- 3. Start your PC with the installation disk.
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- 4. Press 'ESC' as soon as it is possible (to get a command prompt).
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- 5. Start 'REGISTER' as already mentioned.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Setting up a new user ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- At first some words to the organisation of desktops: If you start your computer
- you will see the default OS/2 desktop. This will be called the root desktop.
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- If you now click on a user desktop icon, the root desktop will be closed and
- the new desktop started.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. Creating a new user ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Creating a new user is a quite simple job: Open the templates folder and drag a
- 'User' template to anywhere. The system will then create a new user desktop.
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- Although a lot of people like an untidy desktop, it is a good idea to create a
- new folder at least on your root desktop that will contain all user icons. The
- best way is to create a new directory and to create a shadow of this directory
- on your Workplace Shell.
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- For the unexperienced user:
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- 1. Open the templates folder.
- 2. Open the drives folder.
- 3. Open the drive, where you want to put the directory.
- 4. Drag a folder template to the location, where you want to get the new
- directory.
- 5. Click to the new created folder with the right mouse button while
- pressing the Alt key.
- 6. Change the name of the new directory from Folder to anything else (e.
- g. Users).
- 7. Click to the new directory with the right mouse button (i. e. open the
- object's context menu).
- 8. Click to Create shadow
- 9. Select desktop from the list.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. Setting up the new user ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- If you open the settings notebook of a user icon you will see the tab marks of
- a normal folder. Additonally, there are three new tab marks:
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- o Password,
- o Adjustments and
- o profile
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.4. Password settings page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The picture shows the password settings page in the user settings notebook.
- Here you may add a password for the user desktop.
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- If you activate 'Enable password' with the check button control, the user
- desktop may only be started, deleted or changed if one knows the password. The
- password can only be changed, if the old one is known regardless of the state
- of the 'Enable password' button.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t1 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Password settings page in user settings notebook.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.5. Adjustments settings page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The picture shows the adjustments settings page in the user settings notebook.
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- The Advanced settings accesses the following features:
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- o Enable renaming: If activated, the user name may be changed.
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- o Enable moving: If activated, a user icon may be moved to another location.
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- o Allow dropping: If activated, other icons may be dropped onto the user
- desktop icon. This also means, that other users may add icons to your
- desktop even if they don't know your password!
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- The settings in the group Startup programs are not used in the current version
- of WPSam.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t1 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Adjustments settings page in user settings notebook.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.6. Profile settings page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- OS/2 keeps its information about user specific desktop settings in two
- profiles: OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI. The latter is intended to hold all system
- specific informations like the different color-schemes, the printers and queue
- drivers etc. OS2.INI holds information about window positions, folder colors,
- the actual color-scheme, fonts etc.
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- In some cases, it might be interesting to use a user desktop on different
- machines (e. g. in a network). But here the system of two different profiles
- implies a problem, because it is necessary that the user- and system-profiles
- are able to keep track of each other. Suggest you use only one system-profile
- on a single computer. If you now keep your desktop on a network drive and
- access it from different machines with different system-profiles, this will
- cause a system fault.
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- To avoid this, you may choose to use a private system-profile. In this case,
- each user gets his own system-profile and thus it is possible to use the
- resulting combination of system- and user-profiles on different machines.
- Although switching between different system-profiles in a running system is not
- supported by OS/2, we have tried to use it nevertheless and to do this as save
- as possible, but it's still in an experimental stage. So you should use the
- global system-profile (this is the default) whenever possible.
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- After you have entered a newly created desktop for the first time, you cannot
- change this setting anymore.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> t1 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Profile settings page in user settings notebook.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Usage ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The usage of the program is very straight forward.
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- Starting a user desktop
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- Simply double click a user icon. If the user icon is not password protected, it
- is started immediately. If it is the first invocation of a new desktop, the
- appropriate INI-files will be generated.
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- If the user icon is protected by a password, you are first asked for the
- password. Invocation of the desktop is rejected on a wrong entered password (of
- course!).
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- Returning to the root desktop
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- Open the desktop context menu by clicking to an empty desktop area with the
- right mouse button and choose the menu entry Root desktop (see the following
- figure). After a 20 second delay the actual desktop will then be closed and
- the root desktop will be started. The delay is necessary, because the Workplace
- Shell has to stop its internal activities.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Deinstallation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Sometimes it could be necessary that you have to deinstall WPSam. This can be
- done as follows:
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- 1. Delete all user desktops (click right to each icon and select delete).
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- 2. Boot from your installation diskettes and start a command prompt.
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- 3. Delete the files WPSAM.DLL and WPSAMF.DLL in your DLL-directory
- (x:\os2\dll, where x is the boot-drive).
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Planned extensions ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- WPSam is a very new program (look at the version number!). So we have still a
- lot of ideas, we want to implement into this program. Here are some examples:
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- o We want to get a better approach for the 20 second solution. Here we have to
- look for a message internal to the PM that may inform us, that all internal
- processing has been completed.
- o At the moment, the position of windows that have been changed shortly before
- switching to another desktop are not saved. We want to change this
- behaviour.
- o We want to add private system environments for the users. At the moment,
- every user has to use batch files to add private environment settings or he
- has to add them to the CONFIG.SYS.
- o We have another System administration program. It is SAM, a fullscreen
- program, that enables password checking and user administration at boot
- time. We want to integrate this program into WPSam (you can already see some
- unused entries in one of the settings pages).
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- If you are missing any features, please don't hesitate to inform us about.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Registration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- This copy of WPSam is provided with a limited evaluation license. You may
- create as many desktops as you want, but they will work only for 21 days. If
- you like the program, you can then keep these desktops and register the
- program. You will then be able to use these desktops again.
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- If you find WPSam useful and would like to register it, a license fee is
- payable. Registration of this software will entitle you (or your corporation)
- to unlimited use of current and subsequent releases of WPSam. It also gives you
- best-effort support via CompuServe, Internet and Fido-net.
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- We offer two license types: individual and corporate. An individual license is
- for the sole use of the named individual, whereas a single corporate license
- entitles use by all employees/members of the named corporation/institution.
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- The introductory prices are as follows:
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- o Individual: 30.-$(US).
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- o Individual (student): 10.-$(US).
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- o Corporate: 150.-$(US).
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- o Corporate (shools and universities): 50.-$(US).
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.1. Registration form ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Noller & Breining Software
- Tannenstrasse 18
- D - 71554 Weissach im Tal
- Germany
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- According: Registration WPSam
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- Yes, I want to register WPSam. I know that this program is
- released without any kind of guarantee. I enclose the
- registration fee to this letter as a bank note.
- (No cheques from outside Germany please ! Thank you)
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- I would like to receive the software on a
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- o 5╨╝" diskette
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- o 3╨╗" diskette.
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- Please send it to the following address:
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- Name, First Name: ____________________
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- Street, No.: ____________________
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- Postal Code, Town: ____________________
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- Country: ____________________
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- __________________________________
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- (signature, date)
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Versions ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 1.1 Addition of Workplace Shell support for OS/2 2.x
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- 1.0 First public version of SAM for OS/2 1.x.
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