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Well, for what it's worth included in this archive are my OS/2 Warp
config.sys, autoexec.bat, system.ini, and win.ini files. This setup allows
me to run NDW 3.0/WFWGroups over OS/2 Warp. Here is some basic info in
case you need it:
System Info: Gateway P5-90 Pentium, 16MB ram, Soundscape Soundcard, Supra
Modem on COM1, Mouse on COM2.
OS/2 Info: OS/2 refuses to recognize my soundcard. I run a program called
Seamless Windows (look for it under seamwin3.zip) in my startup folder
which basically fulfills the same functions as the Fastload option in Warp.
It preloads a dummy inactive session of Windows to allow fast loading of
later Windows apps. I have found, through limited unscientific testing,
that it works better than Fastload. See for yourself. I load Seamless
Windows in Enhanced mode in a windowed setting (i.e. not Fullscreen). All
my other windows applications are set to run in Enhanced/Windows mode,
including Norton Desktop. All Windows applications with these
settings will load on top of the Seamless windows session and inherit its
settings (at least it appears to me that OS/2 is setting things up this
way).
First caution. When you load NDW in this fashion it will not paint the
Windows bitmap on top of the OS/2 screen. Instead it will merely draw all
the Norton icons and drives etc. If you don't like this you can load NDW
as a full screen application. The drawback to this is the longer load
time. I have found that it works for me either way.
Second caution: Sound card interrupt conflicts will bring the system down
every time. That is to say, the first Windows application that loads will
grab your soundcard and lock onto it. If you load another Windows
application on top of the first (i.e. you don't set it up to full screen
and/or it has the same enhanced/standard mode as the first) everything is
fine sound wise. However, if another instance of Windows is loaded, this
second instance will try to grab the soundcard and find it in use. Weird
things happen at this point which will almost certainly lead to a crash.
If you want to prevent this you can just disable sound in Windows. There
may be other ways around this but, at this point, I'm clueless.
Given the above constraints, NDW 3.0 seems to work fine. I have not
extensively tested it but I have loaded many of my applications and they
appear to load fine and function normally (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, Quicken,
among others). The NDW 3.0 file manager seems to work just fine also. The
only problem I have noticed is that there is an error
message at startup from NDW telling you that symevnt.386 is not installed.
I would imagine that is is some sort of driver/handler that OS/2 removed
from one of the ini files. Whatever it controlled is presumably now
controlled by OS/2. Again, I'm clueless here.
I hope this helps. If you have any questions you may contact me on
Compuserve (75226,1266) or at charlie392@aol.com.
Good luck... Charlie