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- From: wdieteri@nyx.cs.du.edu (William Dieterich)
- Subject: Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.021559.1188@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 02:15:59 GMT
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- I just got OS/2 and have some questions.
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- 1) I want to setup a program so that it appears on ms-windows screen,
- instead of icon coming up on the OS/2 screen.
- I cannot find a way of installing a mswindows program to have
- this happen. I realize that I would be required to display the ms-windows
- screen to run the program, but I have a couple of programs I want to
- set up like this.
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- 2) Is this some setting or an other program that will allow me to activate a
- window without having that window bring itself to the foreground?
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- 3) How do I make a screen appear in a certain location, and at a preset size
- every time I open that program. I can get this to happen on some
- screens, but I cannot get this to work with the command line shells.
- As a side question, is there a way of preventing that question requestor
- fromappearing when I close a shell?
- Is there any bad side effect, beside of the possibility that the data will
- not be saved?
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- 4) Are there any good books that are of the more advanced nature, that
- explain what certain files do, the layout of OS/2, etc.
-
- 5) What exactly do the config.sys and autoexec.bat file do? From reading
- the one-line information, it looks like autoexec.bat is run for each msdos/
- mswindows shell that is open, and the config.sys is use to configure OS/2
- and msdos windows. If this is true, is there any thing in OS/2 that can
- be change and then executed to verify if it works without rebooting the
- system?
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- 6) How do delete an icon for a program without deleteing the program?
- Also how do you delete and item from the desktop?
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- I have tried various test such as creating a file called test.bat. I then
- migrate this program, this gives me an icon. I take this icon and
- drag it to the shredder, the icon disappears, but if I do a directory
- of the drive where I created the file, the file still exists.
-
- Finally, any recommendation for good program a person should
- get, and install.
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- Also if someone knows of a true version of more or less, a
- ftp site would be great.
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- Thanks,
-
- Name: Will Dieterich Call Sign: KD4LZE
- E-Mail: wdieteri@wrdis01.robins.af.mil
- "Hello Microsoft Customer Support. Please hold for an hour." -- MST3K
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