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- From: rogoff@netcom.com (Carolyn Rogoff David Rogoff)
- Subject: A few OS/2 WPS question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.201312.23869@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:13:12 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- I've got a couple of OS/2 2.0 questions for the group:
-
- 1) shadows vs links: Shadow objects in WPS seem to serve the same
- function as Unix soft links (ln -s). However, shadows are only visible
- to WPS's own pseudo file system. If you shadow an object it does not
- appear with dir in a shell. It is not even visible from settings notebook.
- Here's what I was trying to do: I have a lot of bitmaps. I want to be able
- to use them as background/lockup screens, so they want to be in c:\os2\bitmap.
- I don't want (or have room on c:) to put lots of foreign stuff on c:, so I
- tried shadowing the files, but as I said before, they don't show up in the
- settings notebook.
-
- Is there A) an equivalent to Unix ln, B) some variable/path I can set to
- tell OS/2 to look for bitmaps somewhere else?
-
- 2) Another WPS question: I'm trying to get most of the icons off my
- screen by using menu items in WPS. I'm used to this anyway from using
- Suns. The program doesn't seem to be run the same as if I started it from
- the icon. Example: I have an icon that starts gnuemacs. I opened the
- WPS settings notebook, chose menu, chose new entry, typed gnuemacs as the
- name, and used find/locate and selected the icon that I normally use to
- start it.
-
- However, when I use the menu item, there are apparently arguements being sent
- to the application. Emacs starts up and complains that it can't find file
- OS2 ! System (whatever it's called).
-
- What's going on?
-
- 3) Is there a port of Unix sort or equivelent?
-
-
- Many thanks,
-
-
- David
-
-
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