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- WPS SETTINGS OUTSIDE THE WPS!!
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-
- If you want to use FileBar as a WPS replacement yet still need access
- to DOS settings (to modify performance features, extended memory, etc),
- you now can!
-
- Upon execution of an application, FileBar will look in the specified
- default directory (as specified in the item data dialog) for that item for a
- file named SETTINGS.INI. In this file, you can place settings for the
- specified executable. See the notes at the end of this document for more
- instructions on how to do this. The settings are specified one per line and a
- list of available settings follows:
-
- (NOTE THAT THIS LIST MAY *NOT* BE ALL INCLUSIVE!! As newer versions of OS/2
- come out, this list may not detail -all- the possible settings that exist.
- At this writing, OS/2 2.1 is the current OS/2 release. If you there are
- settings that are not listed here, that you believe exist, please try them
- (according to the format below) or use QVDM to grab them.)
-
- AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARING
- COM_DIRECT_ACCESS
- COM_HOLD
- COM_RECEIVE_BUFFER_FLUSH
- COM_SELECT
- DOS_AUTOEXEC
- DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION
- DOS_BREAK
- DOS_DEVICE
- DOS_FCBS
- DOS_FCBS_KEEP
- DOS_FILES
- DOS_HIGH
- DOS_LASTDRIVE
- DOS_RMSIZE
- DOS_SHELL
- DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE
- DOS_UMB
- DOS_VERSION
- DPMI_DOS_API
- DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT
- HW_ROM_TO_RAM
- HW_TIMER
- IDLE_SECONDS
- IDLE_SENSITIVITY
- INT_DURING_IO
- KBD_ALTHOME_BYPASS
- KBD_CTRL_BYPASS
- KBD_RATE_LOCK
- MEM_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS
- PRINT_TIMEOUT
- SIO_(group)
- VIDEO_8514_XGA_IOTRAP
- VIDEO_FASTPASTE
- VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION
- VIDEO_ONDEMAND_MEMORY
- VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION
- VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION
- VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION
- DPMI_NETWORK_BUFF_SIZE
- EMS_FRAME_LOCATION
- EMS_HIGH_OS_MAP_REGION
- EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION
- EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT
- HW_NOSOUND
- VIDEO_WINDOW_REFRESH
- WIN_CLIPBOARD
- WIN_DDE
- XMS_HANDLES
- XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT
- XMS_MINIMUM_HMA
-
- The above list may not be all-inclusive... (Also, for users of the STARTD
- program, your initialization files are directly compatable with FileBar.
- Simply copy them to the default directory for an item and rename them
- SETTINGS.INI)
-
- Remember that YES and NO responses (which are found in OS/2's setting's
- notebook) should actually be encoded using 1 (for yes) and 0 (for no).
- So, if you want to set setting XYZ to yes, your settings.ini file must
- include the line "XYZ=1" and NOT "XYZ=YES".
-
-
- QVDM102
- -------
-
- As an aid to help you construct SETTINGS.INI files, you should look into
- obtaining the freeware program QVDM102. It is a program that will take
- WPS settings from an object and write them to a file. The file it writes
- contains a [Settings] section that is compatable with FileBar. If you want
- an easy way to make FileBar mimick the functionality of your WPS objects,
- grab this free program (QVDM102.ZIP on ftp-os2.cdrom.com and many other
- major bulletin boards).
-
- With QVDM, if the settings.ini file it generates does not seem to work,
- go through the file and replace all instances of =YES to =1 and =NO to =0.
- If it still does not work, you may want to try replacing all occurences
- of =ON to =1 and =OFF to =0. If that does not work, please see the manual
- for more details.
-
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-
- sample SETTINGS.INI #1
- ----------------------
- DOS_RM_SIZE=640
- IDLE_SECONDS=60
-
- sample SETTINGS.INI #2
- ----------------------
- DOS_RM_SIZE=620
- IDLE_SECONDS=0
- IDLE_SENSITIVITY=100
- HW_TIMER=1 (1=ON, 0=OFF)
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