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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: A few OS/2 WPS question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.215300.29776@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:53:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.201312.23869@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan5.201312.23869@netcom.com> rogoff@netcom.com (Carolyn Rogoff David Rogoff) writes:
- >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?
-
- Although links are possible, given the structure of HPFS, they are not
- implemented. Shadows are only a WPS thing, and are not part of the
- file system.
-
- As for finding bitmaps, the notebook will only look in /OS2/BITMAP to
- produce the list, but you can pick other ones using the Find...
- button.
-
- >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).
-
- When you launch a program from a folder-menu, one extra parameter is
- tacked on to the command line: the name of the folder that the menu is
- attached to. So, if your icon launches Emacs with no parameters, and
- the menu is attached to the "MyFolder" directory, you end up running
- "Emacs MyFolder", etc. The desktop is just another folder, whose name
- is "OS!2 2.0 Desktop".
-
- To get around this, you can make a .CMD (batch) file that launches
- Emacs and ignores all command-line parameters. Then make an icon
- point to this .CMD file, and hook the menu to this icon. Then the
- parameters will be ignored.
-
- >3) Is there a port of Unix sort or equivelent?
-
- Look about. Most of the GNU utilities have been ported to OS/2 at one
- point or another. I suggest looking in ftp-os2.nmsu.edu first.
-
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