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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: Trouble adding items to WPS desktop menu
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:52:04 GMT
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- ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson) writes:
-
- > Over the weekend I tried adding some additional entries to the WPS desktop's
- >menu using the "Menu" tab in the settings notebook. What I want to do is
- >have a sub-menu which has picks for the various command interpreters (shells)
- >running in windows.
-
- > No problem creating the sub-menu entry, and no trouble creating the
- >individual entries in the sub-menu. I was able to add entries for CMD.EXE,
- >COMMAND.COM, and for sh200, the Unix shell work-alike I downloaded from hobbes.
-
- > The problem comes when I select one of the items:
-
- > 1) When I select an OS/2 window (which executes CMD.EXE in a window), it
- > works, but I get an error message about not finding something in the
- > path. I can't tell what it can't find because the status line in the
- > window covers the first line of the error message;
-
- To remove the status line, find the PROMPT= line in your CONFIG.SYS. Remove
- the '$i' part to get rid of the status line (or, create a copy of the line,
- REM out the original, and modify the copy).
-
- --
-
- Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
-