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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Interesting questions concering the WPS.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.234720.11199@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep2.121648.990@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:47:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.121648.990@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf "Affie" Hauser) writes:
- >(For my person I am still waiting for the ultimate file commander under OS/2...)
-
- Have a look at some of the offerings available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. There are a good half dozen file managers, if
- that's what you are after. The WPS excels at object management,
- broadly, rather than specifically file management.
-
- > <> Sometimes when I open up the drive object (e.g. C:) all directories
- > containing subdirectories have a plus sign to indicate that fact.
- > Clicking on this plus sign opens the underlying tree structure.
- > But "othertimes" these indicators do not appear.
- > This behaving is not deterministic. Is it a bug or can it be controlled
- > somehow? Can anybody tell me how?!
-
- It is a bug, it is known, and the present workaround is just to close
- the window and reopen it until the plus marks appear.
-
- > <> Try opening a diskette with a write-protcetion on it by opening the
- > drive's object! the window does not open and after a few attempts
- > the system crashes!!! No warning, no message box!
- > I assume that the WPS wanted to create extended attributes
- > ("EADATA.SF") on the disk and couldn't. But instead of giving up
- > this ridiculous plan it kills the os.
- > This behaving is not acceptable.
- > I wonder whether anybody has ever used the WPS for diskette operations.
-
- This problem may be addressed by the floppy diskette patch (available
- via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu). I have not personally
- observed the problem.
-
- Incidently, bugs may be reported to IBM using the os2prob.txt form,
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. I've found them to
- be quite helpful.
-
- > <> If I use the WPS for file operations I don't want to have the
- > symbol-view but the detail-view. It is not a problem to tell the
- > WPS my intention so far. But then all subdirectories opened
- > automatically use the symbol-view again and again.
- > Is there any way to tell the drive object to open all directories
- > (or folders or however they call it) in a specific view and to save
- > this as a default?
-
- Apparently not, and it is a medium sized omission, certainly. This
- setting is only individually setable, meaning you have to change the
- property per folder/drive.
-
- >And a few other questions concerning several OS/2 apps:
- > o EPM editor:
- > <> I could not make the EPM editor display a preview of my files.
- > Each time I select this function (FILE -> PRINT -> PREVIEW)
- > the page being displayed is white. Nothing else.
- > Has that something todo with the fact that I have installed ~150
- > ATM fonts. (I have heard a rumour that the editor is not capable of
- > handling this amount of different fonts...).
-
- Bingo. I believe README mentions this. EPM has a ceiling of 99
- typefaces. (Incidently, I get pedantic on this point. You really
- mean typefaces, not fonts. Just like you really mean bits per second,
- not baud. Of course, who has the time to say "bits per second"? :-))
-
- Note that the EPM developers are rather proud of their child, and you
- can bet a fix will be available in the first CSD. (In fact, the EPM
- that ships with TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2 is a slightly later version, but
- I'm not sure whether it corrects the problem.)
-
- > o Clipboard:
- > <> I want to have my Clipboard coming up in a non-public state.
- > Using the public Clipboard within WINOS2 causes a noticable
- > delay on my system (486/33, 16MB) of about 1 second each time
- > I cut and paste in my word-processor. (Yes, I still (have to) use
- > my favorite word-processor under (^!$#%*@) Windows...).
- > Does anybody know how to make this public clipboard as default.
-
- I thought you just select it from within Win-OS/2 and it sticks. Is
- that not correct?
-
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