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In article <dano.758184722@srl01.cacs.usl.edu> dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu (Dan Stephenson) writes:
>Well, here are some things I'd like to see.  In case some IBM'er is
>logging all these... :-)
>1) I would actually like to be able to have Presentation Manager more
>distinct from the rest of OS/2.  Right now I run that nifty ShiftRun
>program to laod OS/2 with PM.  However, I'd like to 'shutdown' PM
>WITHOUT shutting down *all* of OS/2.  Maybe, just shutdown to a
>fullscreen CMD.EXE.  And optionally type 'pm' or something to load it
>back up.  This way: you can change video resolutions without rebooting
>OS/2 (at least wholly).  Also, if you just want to quickly check email
>or something, you can use a text-mode comm program or whatever for
>*quick* work without having to wait for PM, then WPS to come up.
>On the RS/6000s at our school, you login in text mode, but type 'xinit'
>to load XWindows.  You hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X.

You can do something similar, but you need to replace PMSHELL as the
controlling shell with something like TSHELL or CSHELL.  If you then
want to get into the Workplace Shell, type PMSHELL at the command
line.  You would exit PMSHELL using whatever mechanism provided by the
controlling shell.

PMSHELL is, by default, the controlling shell (and will restart itself
if killed), but it need not be that way.

>3) Include a nice text-mode editor.  How hard could it be to make a
>text-mode clone of DOS's EDIT.EXE?  It's a nice quick easy text mode
>editor. 

DOS's EDIT.EXE is already included in OS/2.  EDIT.EXE does the
following:

QBASIC /EDIT

You can alias this under OS/2 using DOSKEY in your DOS sessions so
that typing EDIT does, in fact, load the QBASIC editor.  (In fact, I
think OS/2's default AUTOEXEC.BAT ships with a REMmed out line which
will perform this trick.)

Putting TinyEd (8K?), a protected mode text editor, on one of the OS/2
boot diskettes (for emergency purposes) might a good idea, though.
I'm not sure we need yet another editor (we've got four, after all).

>4) Of course, include a process lister/killer, command line file finder
>(see there 'whereis' program), aliases and file completion for CMD.EXE.
>Hey, I just like using a command line.  It's quick.  

Well, they could just license 4OS2 and be done with it.  :-)

>5) For three-button mice, would it be possible to have a selection of
>what the middle button can be set to?  Or have it 'record' a 'macro' of
>actions to later perform?

Essentially enhance some of the notebook settings in the System Setup
folder.  For example, I'd like to see a picture of a keyboard where
the user could click on any "key" and remap it to any other key.

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