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echo: os2prog
to: Patrick Haller
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-09-26 00:25:48
subject: Naming Conventions

PF> Yes...install Warp Connect and "net use" your own drives.
 PH> Seriously, I rather wanted to know about how UNCs are 
 PH> implemented in the FSD. Are there hooks reserved for 
 PH> that ? Perhaps this would give us a possibility to get 
 PH> rid of those drive letters.

I suppose you could do it,  but you'd have to load the disk *.add
(IBMST506.ADD or whatever) with the /!DM switch,  so that OS2DASD.DMD
ignores it.  You would therefore not be able to use any of the following
with that physical disk:
        FDISK
        FORMAT
        FAT
        HPFS
        others.


 PH> Many people want NUMLOCK turned on permanently in 
 PH> OS/2.

The source code for the keyboard driver is on the devcon ddk;  change it to
ignore any numlock-off requests.

 PH> There are yet only two caveats: I can't turn on NUMLOCK for PM-Sessions 
 PH> and altough NUMLOCK works "correctly" in windowed 
 PH> sessions, PM prevents the keyboard lights to show the 
 PH> _real_ keyboard state. So NUMLOCK works designed but

I have seen this too,  but not on all PC's.  There's another ioctl to
control the LEDs I think,  but I don't remember what it is right now.


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