Dave Davidson wrote in a message to All:
DD> (1) Using FC/2 to browse and edit files, is there any way
DD> to print a file from FC/2? None of the commands nor
DD> pull down menu's indicate that function. For example,
DD> if I edit a .CMD file in FC/2 and want to print it out
DD> for future reference, is there a way to do it within
DD> FC/2?
I suggest replacing the default viewer with a good viewer program. The best
I've found is HyperView, the text mode version. It is super duper dude. Look
for:
HV34.ZIP HyperView OS/2 PM/text file viewer for word processing,
Text,and ZIP Files (Sysop Recommended) (195K)
DD> (2) I've loaded SIO v1.60d, but haven't been able to get it
DD> to work properly. I have an Internal USR Sportster
DD> setup on COM3, 03E8, IRQ4 (verified by Terminate), yet
DD> the ONLY setting in the config.sys file that works is
DD> C:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM3).
Shouldn't that be O3F8 instead of 03E8? Anyhow, you probably don't need to do
anything other than put in the (COM3) paramater. Run rmview /IRQ after it
boots and see what you get. SIO will assign the correct address in all normal
situations.
DD> (3) Is there an OS/2 command similar to DOS's DELTREE.EXE?
DD> When deleting a directory with deep sub-directories,
DD> it's time consuming as well as a PITA to DEL (dir) then
DD> RD (dir). It took me over 30 minutes to delete the
DD> OFFICE51 directory from a previous install, before I could
DD> re-install it where I wanted it to go. (Changed HD's).
OS2Commander lets you delete or move whole directories along with
sub-directories. I would think that FC/2 has the same basic features.
DD> (4) I have used DeBurgs LIST.COM for years, and was
DD> delighted to find an OS/2 port of it.
Nope, that sucks. I used Bergs LIST for many years. Get Hyperview and use
it, it is great. You are using FC/2, that is your file manager, list is not a
good file manager, and not a good viewer. HV is very fast, and does some nice
things, nothing too special, nothing too special needed. What IS special is
the search/highlighting and cut and paste functions. It is perfect for OS/2
and works great with OS/2's cut and paste facilities. Takes about 2 minutes
to learn how to use, and it is time well spent. You can tag lines with the
space bar, or the whole file at once, press L and copy or APPEND to the
clipboard, or to a file. Instead of a file, you can tell it to copy the
clipboard to the printer (lpt1 or PRN or whatever) You can go to any OS/2,
DOS or WIN app, say a text editor, msg reader, browser, the command line,
anything, and hit ALT then p to paste the text. Works neat on searches too,
for example, you can hit S to search for say SIO with config.sys loaded, then
press CTRL+ENTER and all the lines with SIO in it will be highlighted, then
press enter, and it will give you a "hyperview" of just the highlighted text.
Super nice, nothing else I know of compares to this viewer.
DD> (5) Are there any advantages (or dis-advantages for that
DD> matter) of having Sun Office v5.1a being the default
DD> Web Browser? I didn't choose that option as I didn't
DD> know what it would do. I'm using Netscape v4.61 and so
DD> far, it's working OK, except for slow D/L speeds possibly
DD> due to the SIO problems mentioned above.
I dunno, but, I doubt the slow D/L problem has much to do with SIO or OS/2.
SIO either is installed or not, and OS/2 handles any speed your modem can
produce.
DD> I'm going to be home all this week, so I would like to get
DD> as much of OS/2 setup as possible. I may not have this much
DD> time again for quite a while.
Invite Andy over for a few brewskies, and show him your cooking system. He
won't be able to keep his hands out of it:-)
Jack
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