SP> Since I just came in, would you mind to post filename again, if it is
 SP> about a program that will set numlock ON for all OS/2 sessions?

Why can you not set your echo pointers back and read the preceding message ?

This isn't Usenet where there is so much "noise" message traffic that all but
the very largest sites are forced by the sheer volume to expire newsgroups
every 2 or 3 days.  In Fidonet, nodes tend to keep messages for weeks, if not
months, before expiring them.  Jack's original message in this thread is dated 
a mere 7 days ago and is almost certainly still in your local bossnode's
messagebase.

If ever you find yourself in the situation where you have just added a Fidonet 
echo and you have missed the start of a thread by a week or two, don't ask
people to re-post because you missed things.  That just shows lack of nous on
your part.  Simply use the facilities in your offline software to reset your
message pointers back to the date of the original message, and download and
read it.  (If you are a point, then a better habit is to use the facilities of 
your bossnode's area fixing robot to rescan any new echoes at the same time as 
you link to them -- '&' instead of '+' for some robots -- so that you don't
get into this situation in the first place.  You can also use the standard
%RESCAN directive.  Send %HELP to your bossnode's area fixing robot for
details.)

As for numlock, there are three ways of going about things:

        1.  If you have a recent OS/2 Warp 4 fixpack, first try the /NUMON
command-line option to IBMKBD.SYS.

        2.  If you use JP Software's 4OS2 and Take Command for OS/2 command
interpreters, put

                if %_shell% EQ 0 .and. %_ptype% EQ FS keybd /n1

        in your 4START.BTM, and create a TCOS2 program object in your desktop
Startup folder that has "/c keybd /n1" in the parameters field.

        3.  If both of the above do not apply, download one of the many native 
OS/2 command-line utilities that can change the keyboard lock state, such as,
for example, KEYLOCKS.EXE from the OS/2 Command Line Utilities version 1.0
(OS2CLU01.ZIP/OS2CLU01.ARJ on any good files site).

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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