Hello Stewart,

12 Oct 99 08:43, Stewart Honsberger wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

SH> The WPS isn't the GUI, though.

The WPS is a graphical program environment.

SH> OS/2 starts something along the lines of X11,

What's 'X11' ?

SH> and the WPS is simply the window manager.

I thought PM (program manager) is the window manager?

SH> Yes, I have tried using CMD.EXE as my RUNWORKPLACE, and yes, it does
SH> work well. If I were running a server that I was ignoring I'd use that
SH> option. The thing is, I'm using this as my personnal machine, so I
SH> want the pretties (WPS, Object Desktop, the works).

Me too. For years I had an emergency boot partition with cmd.exe as the only
user shell.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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