home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!ellis!sip1
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.180215.20000@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:02:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.021559.1188@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Lines: 88
-
- In article <1992Dec24.021559.1188@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wdieteri@nyx.cs.du.edu (William Dieterich) writes:
- >I just got OS/2 and have some questions.
- >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.
-
- Just as you always did in Windows, really. Double click on the
- Win-OS/2 Full Screen object in your Command Prompts folder. Then,
- from Program Manager, select File -> New (Program Item) and click OK.
- Proceed from there.
-
- >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?
-
- Take a look at xfeel.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Check the file /pub/os2/00Index for location.
-
- >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.
-
- Hold down SHIFT while positioning the window -- this will preserve its
- location for the next time you open it.
-
- > As a side question, is there a way of preventing that question requestor
- >fromappearing when I close a shell?
-
- Yes. Use the EXIT command to exit the shell. This shuts down the
- shell safely, and does not provide that warning dialog.
-
- >Is there any bad side effect, beside of the possibility that the data will
- >not be saved?
-
- No, no bad side effect, but the operating system really has no way of
- knowing that you haven't saved your work in such a session. Hence, it
- presents the warning, to make sure you know what you're doing. Using
- the EXIT command bypasses this dialog, because it does perform a
- "known" means of exit.
-
- >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.
-
- The IBM OS/2 Redbooks are very helpful. You can obtain them in
- electronic form via anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com, then
- print them out. Or you can order the set for about $25 in printed
- form; see the FAQ List for details. There are other third party books
- which do a nice job -- just check your local computer book store and
- find one you like.
-
- >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?
-
- Can you rephrase the question? I'm not sure what you're asking here.
- I followed you until the last sentence, and you were correct up to
- that point, as far as I can tell.
-
- >6) How do delete an icon for a program without deleteing the program?
- >Also how do you delete and item from the desktop?
-
- Run, do not walk, to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and get ahold of the Unofficial
- Guide to the Workplace Shell. Read it, and all will be clear. :-)
-
- >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.
-
- Correct.
-
- >Finally, any recommendation for good program a person should
- >get, and install.
- >Also if someone knows of a true version of more or less, a
- >ftp site would be great.
-
- Check that ftp-os2.nmsu.edu -- you'll be pleasantly surprised.
-
- --
- Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
-