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In article <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:
> Since Windows is an operating *environment*, and not an operating system,
> still relying on DOS's rules, I presume you still must use TSRs to
> accomplish some things. Are TSRs still around in OS/2?  If not, how does
> one accomplish some of the 'background' things that TSRs have been doing
> all this time, i.e., print spoolers, screen savers, etc? 

I don't now about OS/2, but on UNIX workstations and Amigas you just run
ordinary programs in the background to do this sort of thing.
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In article <id.K0PU.0ME@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:
>> Are TSRs still around in OS/2?  If not, how does
>> one accomplish some of the 'background' things that TSRs have been doing
>> all this time, i.e., print spoolers, screen savers, etc? 
>I don't now about OS/2, but on UNIX workstations and Amigas you just run
>ordinary programs in the background to do this sort of thing.

You do much the same thing in OS/2. Note, however, that a lot of that kind of
function is supplied as an integral part of the operating system, especially
print spooling and screen blanking. The TCP/IP package runs its daemons by
starting them from STARTUP.CMD, OS/2's equivalent to AUTOEXEC.BAT. You can
also place program objects in the Startup folder, and the Workplace Shell will
start them automatically on initialization (that's how I start KA9Q for PM on
that box). OS/2 provides commands for starting a program in a background
session.
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In <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:

>Since Windows is an operating *environment*, and not an operating system,
>still relying on DOS's rules, I presume you still must use TSRs to
>accomplish some things. Are TSRs still around in OS/2?  If not, how does
>one accomplish some of the 'background' things that TSRs have been doing
>all this time, i.e., print spoolers, screen savers, etc? 

You do them the same way you do them in Windows -- run them in a
separate process.  There is no difference between Windows and OS/2 in
this regard (so much for another measure of OS-ness).


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