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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: October Beta: comments and questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.174520.28983@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Sender: root@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Operator)
- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <1658@applix.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:45:20 GMT
-
- In <1658@applix.com> jim@applix.com (Jim Morton [ext 237]) writes:
- > I've gotten the October Beta installed on both x86 and Mips, and
- > have a few comments/questions.
- >
- > 1) Has anyone figured out a way to save the window size of TERMINAL
- > between sessions? I hate resizing the default tiny window every time...
- > Doing a save to a .TRM file doesn't seem to save this, and saving
- > properties under Program Manager doesn't seem to help. Can this
- > be saved in a .PIF file?
-
- PIF Files are for DOS only, not for WIN16 programs
-
- >
- > 2) "RMDIR /S has been disabled in this release" - ARGGGGGGGHHH!!!!!
- > I may keep the July release on disk just for this feature. Is
- > there any other good way to recursively delete directories?
- >
- Use the OS/2 16-bit version of the GNU-File-Utilities ported by Kai-Uwe
- Rommel and type "rm -fr *"
-
- > 3) If you use TERMINAL in Telnet mode, and then type QUIT at the
- > Telnet> prompt, it gets hung. Any workaround?
-
- This bug occured here on an IBM PS/2 90 only and only sometimes. The
- workaround is, not to type QUIT, but double click the Close-Box of
- TERMINAL.
-
- >
- > 4) BACKUP still seems to be a piece of garbage. Unlike the July
- > release, in Beta it tells me it doesn't see a tape drive, even
- > though the my tape drive is in the Registry info every time
- > I boot. The July release saw my Wangtek 5525 SCSI drive OK. If
- > anyone is happily using BACKUP with a SCSI 1/4" tape drive, please
- > send me which host adapter and which tape drive transport model
- > you have...Thanks (the hardware release notes suck on this topic
- > since they only list DAT drives, not QIC). Yes, I tried this as
- > both my user ID and as Administrator...
-
- It seems, that really only Maynard and HP-DAT drives are supported in
- this release.
-
- Christoph
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