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- From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Some more suggestions for OS/2
- Keywords: suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <gershon.715924658@husc10>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 03:57:38 GMT
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- Three more suggestions for OS/2 to add to my list:
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- Two system applets:
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- - a "make bootable disk" applet
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- - a standard application installer / un-installer. Perhaps the WPS could
- keep a table of all apps for this purpose? I imagine that the application
- would come with some sort of information file to help the install program.
-
- - It would be nice if character mode applications could find out the screen
- dimensions in characters from the operating system. I am thinking of two
- examples: the first is Emacs for X, which uses an entirely character mode
- interface, but runs inside and X window. When you resize the window, Emacs
- adjusts to the number of characters that fit in the space. The other
- program is Qmodem, which uses whatever video mode and number of characters
- across and down that you happen to have on the screen when you start it.
- It would be nice if, say, character mode Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2, when run in
- full screen mode, gave you an option for number of characters across and
- down to use (a list it would get from the operating system). In a window,
- the same character mode application would adjust the number of characters
- based on the size of the window. (the obvious alternative for the same
- application would be a scaled window, where the window had the same number
- of characters regardless of size).
-
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
-