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Re: OS/2 Wishlist (additions)

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From: Leonard D Woren
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 03:55
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In article <56UKBSII@math.fu-berlin.de> oheiabbd@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de writes:
>[description of installing new windoze program and invoking the
>migration dialog]
>If I then choose search for windows-apps, I get back all
>the programms already installed plus my new one.
>
>At that place I want to be able to deselect all marked
>programms and then select the new one.

Easy.  CTL-backslash to de-select all, then select the one you
want.  CTL-\ works anyplace that supports selecting multiple items.
(CTL-/ selects all.)

On the other hand, it sure would be nice to be able to "migrate" one
new application without having to wait for OS/2 to search thousands
of files on my HD to build a list which I'm not going to use anyway.
Isn't this what you _really_ want?

>What I actually have to do is to deselect all those
>programms (and there a lot) one by one leaving the one
>I want to install as wps-object selected.
>That is a waste of time.

This just emphasizes a common complaint about OS/2 which IBM could
address without changing any code:  in addition to the semi-random
splattering of these shortcut key combinations throughout the
documentation, how about an appendix or something which lists *all*
of them in a single place?  How many times have we seen questions
about bypassing program auto start at boot, or rebuilding INI and 
config at boot, etc?
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Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist (additions)
Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:55:54 -0800
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