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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: some gripes about OS/2 2.0
- Message-ID: <2873@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:35:07 GMT
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- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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- ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
- : > >How the heck do I get more than one windowed DOS box running? If I click
- : > >on the icon, it keeps popping up the one that's already running. Reminds me
- : > >of similar annoying behavior on the mac.
- : >
- : > Go into the system icon and change the default action of what happens when
- : > you click on an icon that has already been opened.
- :
- : This assumes that you like "click again to get another" behaviour. If you
- : don't, you can make more icons to create DOS windows. You can then easily
- : start multiple DOS windows, yet retain the "click on the icon to bring back
- : the window" behaviour.
-
- A quick way to get a one-shot "click to get another" is to copy the DOS
- window icon to the desktop using CTRL-drag (or is it ALT?), double click
- on the copy and then drag it to the shredder.
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