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- Path: sparky!uunet!nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at!awiwuw11!rony
- Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Date: Tuesday, 19 Jan 1993 10:15:32 CET
- From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Message-ID: <93019.101532RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Beta 2.1: Bugs in WPS
- Lines: 37
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- 1) Running the FIND-command on the WPS-object-menu:
- a) searching for files with "Program File"-type does not work on
- "*.COM"-files (types of "Object" was unchecked). I attempted to
- "manually" have OS/2 setup DOS-program-objects for COM-files;
- using the "Object"-type just creates a shadow to the physical
- files rather than creating program-objects for COM-programs.
- b) searching for files with "Object"-type yields a "find-result"
- folder; if deleting this folder, OS/2 starts to stall (pressing
- a key, a mouse button is not being reflected; it seems that
- from there on everything works every three seconds). The system
- becomes unusable. The only solution at that time: booting OS/2 2.1.
- Deleting first the contents of the "find-result" folder by hand and
- thereafter deleting the folder itself seems to work o.k.
-
- 2) As in another post mentioned: Icons being associated to files do not
- change its appearance, if changed on the program-object (i.e. the
- icon-change is not reflected on the associated files). The icon-change
- gets effective once OS/2 2.1 is rebooted.
-
- 3) The drive-object is *extremely* slow in presenting the top-level-entries
- of a directory. On a 50MHz 486 you can watch the creation of the plus-
- icons. The situation is even worse, if one decides to define drives in
- the FIND-function: I have drives A: thru I: on my machine; once I
- decide to locate via drives, it takes the WPS approximately three
- seconds (!!!) per drive to appear, totalling half a minute rather than one
- second (this is on a 50MHz 486 !); also if a drive appeared (like D:) on
- which I would like the FIND-command to work on, I cannot mark it as long as
- not all drives appeared in the scrolling window !
- By the way, it seems that the drive-object shows top-level-directory
- entries faster, if one defines a persistent sort-order (like "allways
- sort"-checking in the property menu of the drive-object for the
- drive in question).
- Having the file-manager of WinOS2 3.1 running seemlessly side-by-side
- with the drive-object reveals that the file-manager is by magnitudes
- faster than the native OS/2-drive-object at present !
-
- ---rony
-