DMJ>
   > Has anyone had any problem with OLX running in a DOS window in OS/2 ?
DMJ>
   It ran fine for me on OS/2 2.01, which was the last time that I used
   OLX.  (-:
DMJ>
   >                                          I will be typing along
   > without a care in the world and wham! I am locked up. The
   > keyboard will not respond. My mouse works [...]
DMJ>
   That sounds like a flakey keyboard, to be honest.  One thing that
   sometimes helps with flakey keyboards is to enable Special Needs
   Support in the keyboard settings.  It's not perfect, but sometimes the
   special needs support will reset a stuck keyboard controller.
   You could also try _carefully_ unplugging and reinserting your keyboard
   connector when it happens.  This too resets the keyboard controller,
   although there's a small chance of user error causing damage (so be
   sure not to plug it back into the wrong socket, for example -- check
   with your motherboard manual before doing this).
DMJ>
   > I would like to if anyone knows any good offline qwk readers for OS/2.
DMJ>
   Both KWQ/2 and MR/2 are packet-by-packet QWK readers for OS/2, and are
   available in try-before-you-buy versions on all good files sites.
   But don't restrict yourself to QWK.  The BlueWave offline reader is
   also available for OS/2, and if you are sick of stupid short subject
   lines, truncated conference descriptions, and the other braindamaged
   limitations of QWK this may be for you (and yes, I say this even though
   I'm using QWK to send this message).  BlueWave has far fewer such
   limitations, and has better support for things like FIDONET netmail.
   You'll need to talk to a BBS that has a BlueWave door, of course.  The
   BlueWave door is available for Maximus and RemoteAccess BBSes as far as
   I know (and possibly many more -- I'm not that familiar with it).
   There are also several suites of OS/2 apps that let you set up as a
   full FIDONET point, and have full FIDONET access (including File
   Requests and so forth), including fully automated exchange of
   compressed mail packets (which you can set up to happen while you are
   asleep, say).  As long as the BBS can talk FTN protocols (and yours
   must be able to, otherwise you wouldn't be here) then you are away.  No
   special doors are required.
   The only combination that I have any experience with is MainDoor (the
   "mailer", which does the packet transmission and reception), Squish
   (which unpacks and sorts the messages into your local messagebase), and
   FleetStreet (which is the reader).  It took roughly 3 hours for me to
   set up here, from initial unarchiving of the programs to a fully
   working system.  There are other options, such as using Xenia for OS/2
   as the mailer, and probably the best place to ask for advice is the
   OS2BBS echo.
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