DC> Given that it is free, given that hundreds of problems have been
  > fixed, why wait.  Get the update, listen to the voice of experience.
 FixPacks?  They sound way too involved to be getting into until
 I have a core of daily-use things.  Plus, the newsgroup posts
 wailing "I just installed FPxx and my CD/mouse/video/whatever
 isn't working right anymore" doesn't inspire confidence.
 Definitely not something to tackle before I (a) install the
 drivers to use the PP Zip drive under OS/2 and (b) get a decent
 OS/2 backup program so I can recover with grace from the
 near-certain disasters I'd stumble into.  Before I do *that* I'd
 like to do little things like get an accommodation with my Alps
 GlidePoint touchpad.  (I miss DragLock.  And some key combos,
 like the two-key that can tile windows, don't work for me.
 Gibbon Double Click doesn't help.  There's a rodent.sys I read
 about I'll check if I dig it up someplace.)
DC> Configuring IP under WinOS2 is significantly
  > more difficult than using native packages.
 I didn't actually see this.  I put in the IAK, and a DosBox
 thing I found with some updates, and used In-Joy to connect,
 and had to modify nothing to get WS_FTP to work.
DC> Actually, yes it can.  I had Win95 up and dialing in a few minutes.
 I have three different text files on how to get the connectoid
 to save the password, and none work.  Plus various other
 annoyances.  About the only thing I like better about Win95 than
 OS/2 3.0 so far is getting the box that pops up with Alt-Tab, so
 moving between windows is easier.  With OS/2, I sometimes have
 to close a window to get at an icon on the desktop; I haven't
 seen a way to get the desktop to come totally to the foreground
 when I want to select something on it.
... The dusky night rides down the sky, and ushers in the morn.
--- SR 2.00 #1019  -!-  Fielding
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