From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
Subject: OS/2 Newbie Questions (longish)
Summary: miscellaneous stuff
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:19:37 GMT

Greets and Salutes,

I'm a newcomer to the OS/2 fold, having installed OS/2 2.0 GA on
Monday (thanks for the the 5.25" bootstrap install disks, IBM!). For
the most part, everything is peachy-keen. I am very impressed by just
about everything, but I do have a few questions... I'm posting these
to the misc group (only post to ONE newsgroup, right?) even though
some of these questions may be more appropriate to the apps group.

I have read the FAQ, fairly carefully, but I may have missed some
things... please forgive if I re-ask a FAQ. I've also scanned the
complete index at hobbes, but again may have missed an entry.

1. Is there a utility that will save my WPS configuration on demand?
   Having to "shutdown" each time is a pain, especially since BOOT.COM
   does not properly save my objects' positions when I want to switch
   to a DOS boot (hey, gotta play Wiz7 now and then :^).

2. I _really_ want GNU Emacs, but I am not quite ready to go to HPFS
   yet. So, until either (a) someone does an OS/2+FAT version of Gnu
   Emacs or (b) I go to HPFS, I am using Micro Emacs. It's just
   different enough from the GNU version to drive me nuts (well,
   nuttier)... But what I really want to know is: is there a TeX mode
   written for MicroEmacs and if so, where is it?

3. Someone mentioned an "rm" written for OS/2... I couldn't find it on
   hobbes. Could someone point me in the right direction? And, while
   we're at it, how about an "mv" that runs under OS/2? (Best of all
   would be a zsh for OS/2 complete with all the file utils, but I
   won't hold my breath. :^)

4. While I'm on the subject of UN*X utils, how do I change the display
   colors for less? Without re-compiling, that is. The current black-
   on-orange is downright painful.

5. TE/2 insists that it is already online when I go to the dial
   directory. It has also stopped dialing, even though it claims to
   be (dialing, that is). It worked on Wednesday, though! Forcing a
   "hang-up" doesn't work ("TE/2 is on line! Are you sure you want to
   hang up?"). I'm using the 1.02 commpak.dll...

6. While TE/2 is not working, I am using ProComm+ (which I like
   plenty). But the patch file (on hobbes) does not come with the
   "patcher" executable (not to mention that the install.exe in the
   archive was the wrong size) and the mouse thing is a big hinderance. 
   Makes using the rest of the desktop sort of like a game called 
   "Keep the Pointer Away From the ProComm Window." Any suggestions?

7. DeskPic really messes up (my desktop went completely blank)... the
   only way to recover was to use Ctrl-Esc and close DeskPic from the
   menu. Yowza was even worse. Anyone know of a working screen saver?
   I'd be willing to pay for After Dark OS/2 at this point.

Responses by newsgroup or e-mail are fine. If I manage to stay
organized, I will post a summary of any e-mail responses I get...

Thanks for listening,

Nick

p.s. This is on a 386DX-33 with 8M RAM. I have an 80M C: drive (about
15M free) and a 98M D: drive (about 45M free), both FAT.

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