PE>> Works great, thanks.  They don't get opened in the exact order I
 PE>> wanted though, or at least when they are minimized they aren't in
 PE>> that order.

 RS> Not quite sure what you mean there.

 RS> What difference does it make what order they are opened anyway ?

What I mean is that I put Binkley into Startup, followed by OS/2, followed
by DOS, and after I boot up I have (minimized on the bottom of my screen)
OS/2, Binkley and Dos instead of Binkley, OS/2 and Dos. What I want is
Binkley to be in the bottom left hand corner all the time.  The idea is
that I open lots of OS/2 and DOS windows, but only one Binkley, so I want
it isolated.

 RS> If it does matter you can do various things like have a Rexx script
 RS> which is what a particular icon actually runs, then it actually opens
 RS> various windows. Or even have a whole folder in the startup which itself
 RS> has various icons in it.

Sounds complicated.

 PE>> Also, the last opened window (DOS box) stays at the DOS prompt instead

 RS> of going back to the Desktop.  Any ideas around that?

 RS> I assume you mean that you want that window to stay at the dos prompt
 RS> after its opened and for the window to stay open, but you just want to
 RS> have the desktop active, whats generally called in OS/2 parlance, for
 RS> the desktop to have the focus.

Yes, I want parlance.

 RS> There are a variety of ways to do that too. You can for example have the
 RS> DOS window start minimised. Or concealed.

I open lots of DOS boxes, and I want them to all open full screen.  I only
want to have one copy of the DOS box as well, and the rest as shadows, so
that any changes in one happen in all.

 RS> It depends quite a it on what you want to do, sounds like you are just
 RS> starting up the background tasks at boot time. It generally better to
 RS> actually have the startup startup what you normally use in the
 RS> foreground too rather than have to manually start it as well after the
 RS> boot from the desktop.

I use OS/2 and DOS in the foreground.  I don't have everything on its own icon (yet).

 RS> Then there is the more general question of shutdowns. Some people prefer
 RS> an alternate approach of just having OS/2 return to the desktop config
 RS> which was there on the last shutdown. Thats essentially an alternative
 RS> to the whole startup folder approach. There are lots of alts.

The problem with that is that I want to shut the applications down cleanly.
 So how can I do that properly?  If I reboot because of an error (TRAP E
etc), I get two copies of everything starting up.  I don't like that.  How
do I say "forget what used to be running"?  BFN.

Paul

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