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- Readme for TOOLS.INF (ver 2.6) (C) Mike Walsh (Helsinki) May 1992.
- (for address, bbs, tel and fax details see below)
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- This file may be freely distributed "as is" to BBS systems
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- Disclaimer
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- This INF file is distributed via Compuserve and other BBS systems. Permission
- has also been granted to IBM to distribute this file in connection with
- the launch of OS/2 2.0 in Europe. Responsibility for the contents remains mine.
- All possible care has been taken to ensure accuracy of information but no
- guarantees are given. All product descriptions unless otherwise stated have
- been taken from the companies' own product and marketing material and NONE
- have been extracted from magazine articles.
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- I have no connection with IBM and work as a consultant for Finland's largest
- insurance company Pohjola (which does use IBM mainframes and PS/2s). Most work
- on this INF file was done at home using a PS/2 Model 40-045 (AT-bus, 80386sx,
- 20MHz, 4MB, 80(+120) MB IDE hard disk(s)) and the 6149 and later levels of
- OS/2 2.0 beta. I am now running on GA and seem to need more main memory (!).
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- I welcome your comments ! Please write even just to say you liked it
- (ESPECIALLY to say you liked it (: )
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- I also welcome descriptions and other information on your products from
- all makers of OS/2 products. I don't expect these to be ready-formatted
- IPF statements - but all credit to the Managing Director of Intelligent
- Environments who did just that for his Applications Manager product.
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- The product works in both 2.0 and 1.3. However it views better in 2.0 -
- for instance the list of (all) products shown below the "Description" menu
- point is now more easily available through the standard 2.0 "Index" button.
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- How to "read" the enclosed file
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- After unzipping you'll get TOOLS.INF and this file. TOOLS.INF can be "read"
- (viewed) with VIEW.EXE.
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- If you can't find VIEW.EXE, well it's probably only because when you installed
- OS/2 1.3 / 2.0 you didn't request that the reference files be installed. When
- this happened to me, I didn't mess about with copying from the installation
- disks etc., I just installed the reference files and lo-and-behold VIEW was
- suddenly included in my path.
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- Amendments
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- Readers of previous editions will I hope be glad to note that I have
- decided to drop this section. The only changes in recent editions
- have been in quantity and (I hope) quality. So I have decided to
- put history to rest.
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- General Information
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- As usual any more info you can add to the address/price/ref info supplied
- will be appreciated.
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- Thanks go to Dan Kyburz of Palm Harbor, FL whose pd vendor phone list has
- filled in a few blanks in the addresses section.
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- Comments, additions and corrections please to CIS: 72557,3170 BIX: mwalsh2.
- You can also contact me via the ILINK Scandinavia and OS/2 conferences
- (MIKE WALSH). I am now also able to read the comp.os.os2.xxxx newsgroups
- so you could also post corrections there (in comp.os.os2.apps if poss.).
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- Mike Walsh, Visakoivuntie 11 T 36, SF-02130 Espoo, Finland
- :p.or c/o Pohjola, Lapinmaentie 1, SF-00300 Helsinki, Finland
- :p.Tel: (Work) (358) 0 559 2214 (Home) (358) 0 422425
- :p.(Finnish Time is GMT + 2)
- :p.Fax: (Work) (358) 0 565 2205 (inside Finland 90 instead of 0)
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- *** REQUESTS ***
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- If you are based in Finland (preferably Helsinki) and have access to the
- Finnish ftp storage location for OS/2 files please contact me, so that I
- can get the latest version into the net as soon as possible.
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- If you have local prices and sources for European countries not at present
- included in the file please let me have them.
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