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- Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 1993
- 05/19/93
- Group Folder - Dan Kehn (74140,3263)
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- First copy your GFOLDER.DLL file to a disk. For example,
- C:\OS2\DLL. Copy the Group Folder help file, GFOLDER.HLP, to your
- help directory, for example, C:\OS2\HELP.
-
- Then start the installation program, GFINST.EXE. It will prompt
- you for the path where your copied the GFOLDER.DLL. When the
- installation is complete, a new folder object called "Stuff" will
- appear on your desktop.
-
- Double-click the "Stuff" folder and select "Create standard groups"
- from the menu bar's Folder pulldown to create an example set of
- groups based on the objects included with OS/2.
-
- NOTES:
-
- A few users have reported system hangs when GFolder is opened
- while the system is heavily stressed (eg, during system boot).
- I've traced the problem to multithreading within WPS/GFolder. To
- disable it, add:
-
- SET GFOLDERSYNC=YES
-
- to your CONFIG.SYS. This appears to prevent the hang, but makes
- the opening of GFolder's synchronous, ie, you'll see the "wait"
- cursor until the folder is done opening.
-
- UPGRADING TO NEW VERSIONS OF THE GROUP FOLDER:
-
- The GFOLDER.DLL cannot be replaced while it is in use by the
- Workplace Shell. A simple way around this problem is to add the
- line below:
-
- CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
-
- to the top of your CONFIG.SYS file and reboot. A full screen
- session will be started before the Workplace Shell is started.
- Copy the new GFOLDER.DLL over the old and then EXIT to continue
- booting. Remember to remove (or comment out using REM) the line
- above in your CONFIG.SYS.