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Hello all. I uploaded the following "advice", which I grabbed of off the internet. I hope you find it enjoyable. Hans-Jochen (Team OS/2) 2:2400/116@fidonet hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de 100024,712 CompuServe ============================================================================= From rene@u.washington.edu Thu Apr 1 18:53:20 1993 Subject: Re: OS/2 PDK, CDROM, and SHAKESPEARE Status: RO I'm glad you like it...as long as you're in to it, you might also be interested in this...Though I wouldn't agree with some of what I wrote (it was awhile ago) like my HPFS advice, it's probably a lot better even than that little post. Note: Paul muad'dib is my other pseudonym. Post it wherever you want. Subj: HOLY RULES OF OS/2 2.X Paul Muad'dib's Rightous Rules of OS/2 2.x Usage For if thou dost wish an effective computing environment, verily OS/2 can offer such a space, but be advised that whiners, and losers, and techno-wimps it likes Not. And if you are so evenly derived from such a stock, may you find comfort in the likes of Windoze or GEM or System 6 (7 is a holy number and it too would tax your meager mental resources). But if you have a spirit of cunning, adventure, and guile (and better yet a direct Internet feed :), then doth it well appear that OS/2 is devised' for you. ...if you know these few rules. Thou shalt read the manuals, and re-read them, BEFORE installing the system, else thy system ends up fit for a wretch. For I have seen the effects of the computer handyman who thinketh that manuals are for vasty minds, and this very person had but 4 megs of system memory when he concieved it a fine idea to make his hard drive one HPFS partition. . . the resultant disk thrashing was most lamentable to behold! ...which remindeth me of the next law...which is: While HPFS is a most absolute and excellent technology, and I can fairly proclaim its many virtues, the Day of HPFS has not yet come. Many programs understand it not; if (pity) your OS gets churned about, you will have a most piteous time accessing and repairing the damage, unless you are Smart. And unless you have had many vital experiences with OS/2, you are Not Smart. Thou shalt read, re-read, and re-re-re read the OS/2 2.x FAQ (Frequently asked questions list); for its own author is as fair a gentleman as any, bearing the Name Timothy Sipples; he is most certainly Smart. It seems I have asked all but nine and ninety questions, only to be told, "Insolent Wretch! Pollute our fair newsgroup no more with such tripe! It is to be found in the FAQ! Now, get you gone, you minimus of hindering knot-grass made...you bead, you acorn!! Out, tawny Tarter, out! Out, loathed medicine, hated potion, hence!" Oh, shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!! I would save you from such a fate. Read the FAQ. Thou shalt edit the garbage out of the installation procedure, for while Neko the Cat may seem a fine idea upon installation, and you may say often "Oh, to be such a fair young feline! To bound about the desktop which such abandon, winding up days with toil and nights with sleep...To fall famished with such a Charming and Humorous Aspect... oh, 'tis so cute! I thing I should laugh! Ha! Ho! Ha! Charming Cat! Ha!". But as the ever growing swapfile sucks away your hard disk space, the fair young cat (and programs of it's ilk) shall assume a different visage, and your Good Humor shall be replaced by a murderous rage, and you will find yourself saying " Most foul and evil beast! I hate you! You tread upon my screen with your vile whiskers, sucking up my precious hard drive space, drinking my megabytes away; Oh, if I could but crawl inside the desktop to join you in fair battle! But nay, you hide behind my windows and put .DLL's where I can't find them! Vile thing! I am angry now! (etc.) Know fairly that there are two files that can be created in the root. They are Named autoexec.bat and startup.cmd; and if you place items in these, they affect startup not, but rather every instance of DOS or OS/2 command lines that you open from inside the Workplace shell..So, if, for instance, you desire a 50 line DOS every time you open a DOS session, you can place mode co80, 50, in the autoexec.bat file, along with other goodies such as DOSKEY and suchforth. Know finally that the Workplace shell is far and away the most underrated of OS/2 features, and the good man shall endeavor to know of its Mysteries, and understand Objects and Shadow Objects fully; for many wonderful things are possible once a basic understanding of this is <*>Replies yep...that's it. enjoy ============================================================================= BTW, the "afore" mentioned FAQ's are Timothy Sipples (Dr. Sipples :) famous Frequently Asked Questions, a MUST read for every OS/2 user. Available also on CIS I think. The newest version as of today, April the 5th, is 2.0k. The list comes as plain ascii as well as INF format. Hans-Jochen