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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.191939.1588@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 19:19:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil) writes:
- >Could someone please explain what core functionality PMSHELL provides;
- >i.e. apart from GUIness... ?
-
- It provides the session manager in addition to the GUI. PMSHELL.EXE
- is run twice. The first time (as PROTSHELL=) installs the
- Presentation Manager and the Session Manager. The second time (as
- RUNWORKPLACE=) installs the WPS.
-
- >If one uses CMD.EXE as the primary shell, does one lose such features
- >as being able to start the DOS box, and switch between concurrent tasks,
- >or is it just that I haven't figured it out yet?
-
- As PROTSHELL=, I believe you lose the ability to switch among
- sessions. I think you can still START other processes and START DOS
- sessions, but you'll need some utility program to give the system call
- needed to change the foreground session to another session.
-
- >Maybe it is just that CMD.EXE is unnessarily primitive... It seems to me
- >that ina multitasking OS, something as basic and fundamental as
- >job control from the CLI should come out-of-the-box and not require
- >detailed explorations of internal nuances, and ftp-forays; procs and killem,
- >and the not-yet-extant fgem, bgem, and niceem should have been in the initial
- >release. Or not?
-
- OS/2 really wasn't meant to be run without PM. There was a text-mode
- Session Manager in OS/2 1.0 (accessed via ctrl-esc as before), but it
- was eliminated when PM was added for version 1.1.
-
- If you need the memory that WPS is taking, set the RUNWORKPLACE= line
- to CMD.EXE, but don't change the PROTSHELL= line. This way, you'll
- have PM and the Session Manager, and you'll save the memory that WPS
- uses.
-
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