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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: A few OS/2 WPS question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.114747.21060@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 11:47:46 GMT
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- Carolyn Rogoff David Rogoff (rogoff@netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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?
-
- Shadows a purely a feature of WPS, they live in OS2.INI and (?) OS2SYS.INI
- which WPS uses to construct its view of the world.
-
- What you describe needs filing system level links, as in UNIX. Shaddows
- are *not* a substitue for these - as someone else has commented today that
- they do not survive a floppy copy from one machine to another (though there
- may be some util to help) - certainly they didn't survive an xcopy when
- I was rearranging my disk during a SP install.
-
- I think the only solution would be a new filing system as I HPFS had the
- ability to do links I would expect that they would be in there. As OS/2
- does have installable filesystems this wouldn't be impossible. Perhaps
- filing systems will follow the progress of graphics adapters with
- VHPFS, SVHPFS, XFS, ... etc :-)
-
- : 3) Is there a port of Unix sort or equivelent?
-
- very likely - probably in one of the files in /pub/os2/2.0/unix/gnu
- on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu - try gnusutil.zip or gnutuexe.zip, one of these
- may contain GNU sort.
-
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