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WPSam - WorkPlaceShell Access Manager
*** READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLATION ***
************************** ATTENTION *************************
If you use WORKFRAME/2 Version 2.1 (software development environment),
you will run in problems when using WPSAM due to bugs within WF/2 2.1.
Please read the paragraph concerning WF/2 2.1 at the end of this file.
************************** ATTENTION *************************
Description
WPSAM is an Extension of the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.1 and like the
WPS itself implemented completely in SOM. Therefore working with and
Installing of WPSam is somehow different from what you are used to
from other programs or operating systems.
Install Program
This install program is designed to be on a diskette drive in the
"\"-directory. Have at least the file WPSAM on a diskette.
Additionally make shure to be on the root desktop when you start this
installation program. When you install first time this is necessarily
the case but remember it when deinstalling.
InitOS2
During installation you may select whether to install InitOS2 or not.
InitOS2 is an additional program asking for a user name and,
optionally, for a password during boot of OS/2. This serves for two
purposes:
1.) Access protection for the computer (mostly in connection with a
ROM BIOS avoiding booting from drive A: and containing password
protection itself.
2.) Creation of users having not only a separate Desktop and OS2.INI
but also their own OS2SYS.INI and are fully independant from the
"root desktop" therefore. This could be rather useful during
software development or usage of slightly buggy software or when
using software not compatible with another product.
Note: When installing with InitOS2, you are prompted for a user name
and password already during the next bootup. The default user
name for the root desktop is "ROOT" !!
How WPSam works
WPSam is a program bundle, allowing to create and handle different
desktops.
Every desktop is stored together with the corresponding INI files in a
special folder, the so called user container (shortcut user).
To switch to another desktop simply double click the user container
belonging to. It is also possible to enter the user name during boot
of the computer.
There is a template for a user container contained in the templates
folder. Please note that a new desktop is created for every user. This
is the same action as is done during the first boot after installation
of OS/2. Please be patient when a new user is opened first time.
Deinstallation
Due to the fact that WPSam is an extension to the workplace shell and
gears into it you should not try to deinstall WPSam by deleting files
or INI file entries. Please use this installation program for that
purpose. It removes not only the installed files but also entries made
in INI files. Only users created by you have to be removed by hand if
you don't want to install WPSam later. If you don't remove users this
causes no harm to your system - there are only some files left which
are invisible for the WPS.
Please note that you have to be on the root desktop when using the
installation program for deinstallation also.
Workframe WF/2 Version 2.1
IBM WorkFrame/2 version 2.1 has a bug, that destroyes the consistency
of data in OS2SYS.INI. You will mention this without an installation
of WPSam when generating a new OS2.INI file using the program MAKEINI.
If you reboot your computer after doing so, you will get an error
message "Workplace shell not found". You will notice exactly the same
error, if you start an uninitialized new user.
We recommend the following: Install WF/2 only in a private user
session.
A lot of users will have the problem, that they have already used WF/2
before an installation of WPSam and they therefore already have an
inconsistent "root desktop".
Here a possible remedy:
o Boot with the installation disk.
o Copy OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI to another location and generate new
ones. Move the directory "desktop" to another location.
o Reboot your computer.
o Install WPSam.
o Generate a user, but don't initialize it (don't start it). Mark the
user as a "private" one.
o Use the drive icons to move the old desktop directory and the *.INI
files into the new user folder.
Now the new desktop is the root desktop, whereas the old one is a
private user, that may be started using InitOS2.
You will find this paragraph again in the online manual WPSAM.INF in
the EXE path you selected during install.