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Re: A couple of problems...

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From: par0504.urh.uiuc.edu Kris Kwilas
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00
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In <47l95s$816@a3bsrv.nai.net>, bbattles@nai.net writes:
>  1) It used to be that if I was in an "OS/2 Prompt" session, if I tried
>to run a DOS program from the command line, it would simply open up a DOS

Try using Selective Uninstall to pull the DOS support. Then, use Selective
Install to put it back.

>  2) All of a sudden, for no reason I can think of, about a couple of
>weeks ago I started having trouble with viewing/editing text in certain
>text looks fine, sometimes it's mixed with ASCII "garbage" characters,

You didn't tempt fate with the FixPak 12 beta, did you?

>  3) If you bring up the Fonts Pallette onscreen, it says you can change
>the screen font "globally" simply by holding down the Alt key,
>old "default" system font. Is this just the way OS/2 Warp works or is
>there any way to do what I want?

It's the way OS/2 works. Try ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/patches/smallf13.zip
and let us know if it helps.

Kris

kwilas@uiuc.edu
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From: par0504.urh.uiuc.edu@   (Kris Kwilas)
Subject: Re: A couple of problems...
Date: 1995/11/06
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