> i was just loaned a copy of warp v4 to see if it would run on 
 > my hardware. after a near flawless installation that 
 > recognised my stb powergraph 64v+ and the buslogic bt958c and 
 > most importantly the smc pci netetwork adapter. hell it even 
 > regognised my chaepie no name (ok its a deltacom) 17 inch 
 > screen, looks real good at 1020x1280 .. a bit better than my 
 > old nec 4d.
 > all the hardware installed in a flash even the netware client 
 > didnt fall over with the pci smc nic, i was surprised and 
 > rlieved to say the least.

Yep. They're gooding good at this. WARP 4 is much bigger and better than
I've ever had time to want :).

 > connection details paswords etc are setup and how the two 
 > systems (netware file server and os2 netware client) talk to 
 > each other so that i can integrate the netware file server. 

It should be top level, supporting all normal admin functions etc (as WINXX
doesn't) - IBM developed the Novell support in conjunction with Novell
themselves.

 > peer o peer has not worked for me, i think i failed to 
 > understand  some of the things tha make it all hang together.

It's one of the best and most useful features for me. NETBIOS
peerpeer for most OS clients.

 > anyway i looked at the demo software and found lotus word pro 
 > .. installed it and what a nightmare ... its one of the 
 > busiest screen layouts i've ever seen. the paradigm .. that 
 > too is a step in the more obscure than describe and clearlook 
 > looks easy to come to terms with by comparision.

:). I've powered it up, but not had time to play with it yet (and I'm not a
prior Word-Pro user). I'm using IbmWorks plus Describe, and may ease into
StarOffice or WordPro but there's no rush.

 > well what can i say, my needs are simple, but more 
 > complicated than ibm works wordprocessor but to take on the 
 > new breed .. learning emacs or nroff would be easy by 
 > comparison .. 

Perhaps StarOffice would be more suitable, sitting somewhere between
Describe and WordPro. The StarOffice demo is also on the sampler cdrom.

 > so my original stands, "how do you inatall winword and excell 
 > on a machine that is running os/2 v3.00 (warp connect) and 
 > using the fat filesystem. if someone has a hpfs solution all 
 > the better i like to use hpfs, while the ms product install 
 > failure hasnt been the only reason for not using hpfs it has 
 > been the most significant.

I don't recall the original msgs; but I've had WinWord2 and Excell
installed under CONNECT without problem. They were from the older Office
pack obviously, not the one that included WinWord6. WinWord2 is a definate
preference even under native WIN3.XX. WinWord6 was full of bugs and
unstable.

Regards.

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