Hello Dave!

Sunday November 14 1999 14:52, Dave Davidson wrote to All:


 DD>  (1) When I open the DRIVE Icon to see the list of available drives,
 DD> how
 DD>      can I prevent the error message regarding DRIVE A not ready,
 DD> simply
 DD>      because there isn't a disk in the drive?

Doesn't happen here.. Not sure what the problem is.


 DD>      when OS/2 is loaded and as a result, neither modem is available
 DD> under
 DD>      OS/2. I _did_ add the line   to
 DD> the
 DD>      DEVICE=SIO line in the config.sys file. Is there anything else I
 DD> need
 DD>      to do?
Yes, It should have all the information about the comport. Something like
device=c:\sio\sio.sys (com3:115200,3,3e8,,).


 DD>  (3) With FP9, my Internal ATAPI ZIP Drive _IS_ recognized and used
 DD> by
 DD> OS/2
 DD>      however, the ONLY way I can eject a ZIP disk is to exit OS/2! I
 DD> can't
 DD>      swap disks while in OS/2, even if I'm not using it. Is this
 DD> normal or
 DD>      am I missing something here as well?

Yep you missed the little program called eject. Or when you right click on the 
icon for the drive, it should have a listing for eject. Best bet though is to
create an object with the parameters of Eject x: and put it on the desktop.
That's what I did..

Alternately you can open an OS/2 window and type Eject x:..

 DD>  (4) Is there any way to get rid of the Blue background with the OS/2
 DD> WARP
 DD>      Logo on the desktop? I would prefer a totally black background
 DD> with
 DD>      just the Icon's and tool bar, etc., displayed. Is this possible
 DD> and if
 DD>      so, how?

Yep. go into the setup folder and hit Scheme palette. Click on one of the
palettes, and edit to your heart's content. Drag the palette to your desktop,
and it is changed. Or you can just right click on the desktop, and select
properties. Change the background color and exit.


 DD>  (5) I haven't tried it yet, but the question still remains.... Will
 DD> DOS
 DD>      Communications programs bomb under OS/2 with a ScreenSaver active
 DD> as
 DD>      they do with WIN9x? Keep in mine I've been using WIN9x for a few
 DD> years

No.. Not to my knowledge. Although there aren't a lot of screensavers for
OS/2. Not like the ones for WinXX. But OS/2 can handle things like this a
whole lot better than WinXX ever could..


 DD>  As I mentioned in previous posts, now that I have OS/2 up & running,
 DD> I'm full of questions that I either couldn't find answers to in the
 DD> manual or simply didn't understand. I have a feeling this is just the
 DD> beginning.

Play with it. Work with it. Unless you do something really silly like start
deleting files, it will run for what seems forever. Mine has only been up for
20 hours right now, but I was playing with linux last night.. ;-) Before that
it was a couple of weeks since I had to re-boot. I keep two BBS lines up, an
outbound manager, Seti@home, a small Peer to peer network, and Warp just keeps 
running.


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
This OS/2 system uptime is 0d 20h 14m 03s 62ms (en).

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