Subj : Re: os/2 in the 2020's...
To   : Daniel Juarez
From : Kevin Nunn
Date : Thu Jun 03 2021 02:48 pm

-=> DANIEL JUAREZ wrote to STAN HOSDAR <=-

 DJ> On OS/2 one thing I have yet to learn is how objects are used properly.
 DJ> I mean, just trying to make what I would consider a shortcut on the
 DJ> desktop to an application, I have not figured out without copying the
 DJ> whole application to the desktop. But, I confess I have not put much

I could be wrong, but I believe what you have to do is create a
"shadow". On my ArcaOS system, you can right click on an object and
"Create Shadow" and it will then ask where to place the shadow (to the
Desktop) and then you have a shortcut to that obj on the desktop. 

I think object oriented stuff was taken to the extreme on WPS. You
could do a lot of really cool stuff, like drag docs to the printer to
print them. And one feature I used a lot was having sort of a "work
folder" and if I opened that folder (filled with shadows), everything
in the folder was opened. I could have a "BBS" folder, with telnet,
multimail and dos shell "shadows" and when I opened it, all those would
open up. 

Kev

(by no means an OS/2 guru, but I was in Team OS/2 for awhile :> )
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