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Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition

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From: Thomas Mack
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 14:15
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Some small additions:

1) Ability to lower the active window with the mouse, maybe right click
   on titlebar.

2) Ability to change keyboard settings (repitition rate und repitition
   delay rate) above the todays maximum rates. Maybe 90% or 99% of the
   users have there settings at maximum or 90% of maximum I think.
   I don't think it a good design, if most people will use the
   maximum rates and maybe 5% or 10 % use the the first 90 % of
   the settings.

   But maybe this is a hardware problem and not an OS problem...

3) More consistent behaviour of CMD.EXE. What I would like to see
   improved is e.g. the different meaning or handling of points in
   filenames. Try myprog, myprog. or "myprog. " to start the program
   'myprog'. Only the last one will start the program. I would like
   to be able to have files ending with points or even spaces and not
   all considered to be the same.

   Also try to move 'bigfile' to 'BIGFILE', I remember getting some
   problems, when I tried it (under 2.0). I never tried it again.

4) 'move' to move between filesystems...

5) REXX should use national language support. For example, using
   SysFileTree to get filenames, one always gets the US-date and
   time-format, which is not very meaningful in Germany.

These are just some additions that come to my mind and have not yet
been mentioned here, Unicode, ALT HOME for OS/2 Shell-Windows and
these multiple message queues I would also like to see implemented
soon.

Thomas Mack
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Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition
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