Rodrigo Cesar Banhara wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> You can run all the non-pm applications you want, you just can't see
 JS> them all on the screen at the same time, and to switch to the
 JS> forground/background you need a switcher, like PGMSHELL that comes with
 JS> TSHELL.

 RCB> Not all. Start OS2 in text mode & run FileCommander. It
 RCB> won't. 

I run OS2 Commander, not File Commander, but that ran perfect in a TSHELL text 
session.  I don't understand why a non-pm application would not run without
PMShell...  Guess I'll have to take your word for that unless someone else has 
done it with FC.  Are you certain FC is a non-pm application?

                                              Jack 
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