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In article <2d24f39e.spatial@spatial.UUCP> evanc@spatial.UUCP (Evan Champion) writes:
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>Please mail any additions to evanc@spatial.synapse.org (Internet) or
>Evan Champion @ 1:163/590 (Fidonet).

E-Mail bounced, so here are mine.

>POSIX COMPLIANCE

Unnecessary.

>DRIVER SUPPORT

Definitely.

>SYMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING

Yes.

>GLOBAL CHANGE OPTION FOR THE WPS

Enable the saving/loading of the DOS session settings to a file, and the option
to change all DOS program settings (and for that matter OS/2 program settings)
to match the current one.

>INI EDITOR

A config.sys file editor (for the unwashed masses) would be a good thing too.
Make it support drag-n-drop, so that the config.sys file can resemble the
startup folder on the Mac, which people seem to like.

>TEXT-MODE EDITOR

Maybe.  There are several available for free/cheap (like QEdit) which are
more than adequate.

>COMMON INSTALL PROGRAM

Would be nice.  A common UNinstall program would be even better.

>NEW FILE SYSTEM

Nice, but lower priority than most things.  HPFS does what I need.

>INSTALLABLE FILE SYSTEMS FOR REMOVABLE DEVICES

Would be nice.

>MOVEMENT OF SHADOWS IN TO THE FILE SYSTEM

Some easier way to tell that "this is a shadow" and not the real object
would be good too.  Just greying the text and altering the pop-ups 
doesn't seem to be enough sometimes.

>MOVEMENT OF INFORMATION FROM THE OS2.INI TO THE FILE SYSTEM

Good idea.

>LONG FILE NAMES IN FAT

This is there now, in the form of the .LONGNAME EA.  Start using it.

>MULTIPLE INPUT QUEUES

Yes.  Definitely.

>A SIMPLE, ROCK SOLID INSTALL PROCESS

Yes.

>RELIABLE WORKPLACE SHELL BACKUP/RESTORE (OS2.INI AND DESKTOP DIRECTORY)

Yes.

>MAINTAINING THE NUMLOCK STATE (AS DEFINED BY THE BIOS)

This doesn't bother me.

>CHANGING THE GRAPHICS DRIVER ON-THE-FLY

Nice, but lower priority than others.

>COLOURFUL ICONS

Yes.  Definitely.

>SCROLL-BACK BUFFER FOR OS/2 WINDOWS

Would be nice, but this is lower priority than others for me.

>MOUNTING DRIVES INSTEAD OF HAVING DRIVE LETTERS

I don't think this is necessary.  It would likely only confuse the average
user (who was dual-booting DOS) and any other program that knew about drives.

>MAKE "/" AND "\" ACT THE SAME FOR DIRECTORIES
>SUPPORT WILDCARD EXPANSION IN THE SHELL
>COMMAND ALIASES IN CMD.EXE
>TABLE OF EXECUTED COMMANDS

Definitely.  However, 4OS2 does most of these things now (if not all of 
them).  Might we get IBM to license 4OS2 from JP software and make it the
default CLI?

>LIST/KILL PROCESS COMMANDS

Very definitely.  Having to get shareware to do this (killem and procs) on
a multitasking OS is just plain silly.  Make them callable by a keyboard
sequence like CTL-ALT-ESC or something, and allow them to kill the WPS as
an option.

>UNICODE

Not a priority for me.

>DATE AND TIME FORMAT

Nice idea, but low priority for me.

>MOVE TO THE MICROKERNAL FOR INTEL OS/2

Only if it doesn't impact on performance too much.

>FASTER BOOT OFF FLOPPY

Yes.  Include also a utility to make a single boot floppy as part of the
base operating system.

>BETTER SVGA IN DOS WINDOWS SUPPORT

Would be nice, but this is low-priority for me.

>ADD SEPARATORS FOR NUMBERS RETURNED BY CHKDSK

4OS2 does this with dir.  I like it.

>SEEMLESS CONVERSION OF LF->CRLF OR DROP CRLF

This is low-priority for me.

>JUMP-SCROLLING FOR SHELL WINDOWS

Yes.

>RESIZABLE SHELL WINDOWS
>RESIZABLE FONT FOR SHELL WINDOWS

These are nice but unnecessary, I feel.

>DISPLAY POSTSCRIPT

Nice but unnecessary.

>DEFAULTS NOTEBOOK FOR SHELLS

I'm not sure how this would be different than what we have now.

>RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON ACTION FOR PROGRAMS THAT DON'T USE IT

Use of the middle mouse button to cut and paste too.

>DEDICATED SWAP PARTITION

Just use a bigger swap file and put it on a partition with nothing else.
-- 
Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca | Now I lay me down to bed 
                                        | Darkness won't engulf my head
                                        | I can see in infra-red
                                        | How I hate the night.       -Marvin