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- From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
- Subject: Full featured OS/2 with just a commandline???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.171246.11127@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- References: <BuE8LD.9y8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep11.053741.9667@ans.net> <88601@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:12:46 GMT
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- Hi there folks. I've posted several bitches/questions and have gotten great
- response from this group. I hope someone has the answer for this since
- it's important.
-
- I've got a friend here at school who is visually disabled (politically correct
- terminology I assume :-) and is very good with a computer. He's got a laptop
- with DOS and a special AI-ish program/sound board that tells him audibly
- what's on the screen. He says the company which makes the boards/software
- are working on a OS/2 2.0 version (available in jan.), and he really wants
- to go to OS/2 (obviously a smart individual). My question is this:
-
- How can he load cmd.exe (or 4os2.exe) (sound board/software only works in
- text mode of course) and be able to task switch, etc. in OS/2. I realize that
- he won't be able to run PM apps (or want to), but he want's to be able to
- do things like format disks in the background, and compile in the background,
- etc. (the things that make life worth living...:-).
-
- I'm *relatively* new to OS/2, and I don't know how to do this sort of
- thing....PLEASE HELP!!!!
-
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- -Jr
- email to 'jreynold@jupiter.nmt.edu'
-
-
- --
- Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
- OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
-