Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (now error messages)

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From: Wayne Hayes
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 02:50

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In article <1991May10.114309.28926@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>Can anyone tell me whether OS/2 2.0 still has those horrible OS/360-style
>error messages in character mode?  Do we have to wait for OS/2 NT to get
>non-obnoxious error messages?

The error messages in 2.0 are pretty descriptive; sometimes they're a bit
*too* verbose for my taste, but for the end-user they should be pretty
comprehensible.

>I guess a nice character-mode shell wasn't in IBM's plans, at least...  :(

AH!  Another thing I forgot to mention: the OS/2 2.0 command shell is
*much* nicer than in 1.2.  They finally put a decent command line editor
and history buffer into it; and even some talk of... well, I probably
shouldn't say too much more; I wouldn't want to get in trouble for
divulging IBM's Sooper-Dooper Secret Plans To Make OS/2 The Best OS Since
Sliced Time.  ;-)

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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (now error messages)
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