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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: 4 meg OS/2 is great!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.042451.3844@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan12.025039.9579@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:24:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.025039.9579@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >I have continued to play with OS/2 2.1 on 4 meg machine. I have it running
- >like a rocket!
- >Try this:
- >Use FAT, not HPFS.
- >Use the cmd.exe instead of running the WorkPlace Shell.
- >You can still run all the PM, DOS and WinOS/2 apps. You alt+Esc between them.
- >Even better, however, is using Norton Commander for OS/2 as the interface!
- >Starting the MENU.EXE program first seems to be the best way. This way you get
- >a nice - though sparse - PM menu that you can put your apps onto. It's a kind
- >of low-rent Program Manager
- >Most importantly, though, the performance is great! I had a DOS window, OS/2
- >full screen, WinOS2 3.1, PMSeek and PM Calculator all open and running and the
- >system was going *very* nicely!!!
- >Try this if you have 4 megs. You don't need Norton Commander, but it does
- >provide a PM menuing system that is pretty clever, too, as well as what looks
- >very much like the Win3.1 File Manager....only better.
-
- While we're on the topic of alternative shells, you can also use
- HyperAccess/5 or Enhanced Editor as a shell. (I leave it up to the
- reader to implement that.)
-
- Or, you can try Mr. File/PM, a new Norton Commander-like piece of IBM
- employee written software. It is free, and, from what I've heard (I
- haven't actually seen it yet; that's my next task), works better than
- NC 1.0. You can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu,
- directory /pub/os2/sharebbs (at the moment). If it isn't there, wait
- a couple days. Or, check the file /pub/os2/00Index for location.
-
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