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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <1993Jan12.025039.9579@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>I have continued to play with OS/2 2.1 on 4 meg machine. I have it running
>>like a rocket!
>>Try this:
>>Use FAT, not HPFS.
>>Use the cmd.exe instead of running the WorkPlace Shell.
>>You can still run all the PM, DOS and WinOS/2 apps. You alt+Esc between them.

>>a nice - though sparse - PM menu that you can put your apps onto. It's a kind
>>of low-rent Program Manager

>While we're on the topic of alternative shells, you can also use
>HyperAccess/5 or Enhanced Editor as a shell.  (I leave it up to the
>reader to implement that.)

>Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from

I'm sorry to ask a stupid question, but I've never quite understood this
point:  PM is the graphics manager (kind of like X-windows), WPS is a
shell that uses PM and manages files and processes?  Is this correct?
If it is, what is the advantage of the WPS?  How does running without
the WPS affect other PM programs? etc.

thanks.
                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu