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to: Dave Davidson
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-11-23 19:38:21
subject: Bunch of Questions....

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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