PK> Its hard to say without more detail on how your shell invokes these
service
PK> Does it try and "launch" the file to be viewed and thus uses the systems 
PK> association for the file, or does it launch the viewer executable directly 

PK> pass it the name of the file to be viewed? We would need a lot mroe
details
PK> about your shell program to be able to accurately answer this.

If I assign a viewer to it (list.com) i have to fill in a path. if i tell the 
zip shell to use object association, it will open the prgram automatically? 
The Viewer I would guess it just passes the filename to list.com

PK> I have only ever run an OS/2 BBS under OS/2 (since OS/2 1.3) so I can't
com
PK> on DOS ones. I doubt there would be much different to real DOS except for
t
PK> events you can run in parallel on the OS/2 environment, rather than as a
se
PK> sequence (EG exiting after a Mail seesion so that incoming mail can be 
PK> processed).

right now (w95) I just do everything in series in one window. mail processing
only takes a few seconds so i dont mind the bbs being off-line for that
little while. I'll likely just keep on doing this.

PK>  ME> IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048
PK> 
PK> Thats the one, 2048 is just a waste of memory in your case, change it to 
PK> something MUCH less. See Wills message about this, start small and only
gro
PK> absolutely necessary. 

Okay, I shall do this.


PK> Yep. Should be ok, unless you fill the drive up and it decides it needs
mor
PK> than 16Mb for swap........;-)

I'll keep an eye on it  when i'm at usual running pace and see where it lies 
then

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