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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: WORKPLACE SHELL INCONSISTENCY
- Message-ID: <93005.164019ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:40:19 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.134559.8611@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <1993Jan5.134559.8611@email.tuwien.ac.at>,
- peter@swwwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Wansch) says:
- >
- >I recently found one inconsistency in the Workplace Shell concept that is
- >very confusing and I personally think that IBM should change that. Data
- >objects and folder objects have a physical representation on the hard
- >disk, while program objects and device objects are only references to
- >either an executable file or whatever. Deleting a data object by dragging
-
- I wish program objects an device objects would also have a physical existence
- in the file system and not only within OS2.INI and/or OS2SYS.INI.
- Then I would be able to simply drag a bunch of customized program objects to
- a floppy or Sysquest and move them to another machine.
- This is a no-nonsense application. Consider a huge textmode app like TeX. With
- some WPS program objects you can build a fairly comfortable shell within 15
- minutes. But you can't transfer it to another machine :-(
-
- Also I guess (this is a _wild_ guess) some of the performance and growing INI
- files problems would disappear.
-
- Michael Bode.
-