Greetings, John...
 John Thompson hastily said to Bob Wright:
 BW>> Well, lemme see here... from personal experience:
 BW>>
 BW>> a) because it's easy to install.
 JT> Well, you should only have to do that once.
....theoretically, yes...
 BW>> b) if you've only got ONE hard drive, DOS is already
 BW>> installed, along with a  whole bunch of stuff that you'd rather
 BW>> not lose.  (Remember, boot manager  installation requires
 BW>> partitioning).
 JT> There are several commerical (Partition Magic) and freeware
 JT> (PRESIZER and FIPS) non-destructive partition resizing utilities
 JT> available.  When I installed OS/2 v2.1 I used PRESIZER to shrink
 JT> my existing DOS partition to create space for an HPFS OS/2
 JT> partition.
Yes, I know that now... back then I didn't, and I'd expect that most new 
users wouldn't.
 BW>> c) if (B) and you don't have a tape drive for use in creating
 BW>> a full drive  backup.
 JT> Although I did have a tape drive and current backups, PRESIZER
 JT> made the change with no data loss.
see above..
 BW>> d) you still have to boot native DOS because your terminal
 BW>> emulator (supplied  by your MS-centric employer) won't work in
 BW>> WINOS/2 (or you don't have time    to figure out how to get the
 BW>> *()&)(*& to work).
 JT> Once you get Boot Manager set up it's no harder to go back and
 JT> forth between DOS and OS/2 than Dual Boot, and a lot less risky,
 JT> IMHO, since it doesn't rely on copying system files each time you
 JT> change OS's.
Like I said.  I know that NOW.  And obviously (maybe?)  I am using boot 
manager now..
 JT> Which terminal emulator are you referring to?  I have yet to find
 JT> a terminal program that doesn't function under OS/2's DOS or
 JT> Win-OS/2.
Attachmate Extra for Windows.. I had it working, eventually, under Warp red. 
Now it doesn't seem to want to work for more than about ten minutes in 
Win-OS2 under Connect.
I have a copy of Extra for OS/2 now, but I probably am going to donate it to 
the local user's group.  It seems to want either NETBEUI, Netware, or SDLC 
connection.  I have yet to find out how to make a RAS connection (NT server) 
to our mainframe from Connect, and we use ADLC for dial-up otherwise.
        -- Bob
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