Cross-posted to OS/2 Australia list and OS/2 WP list Hi all! I have been aware for a long time of an anomaly in DeScribe in favour of our favourite OS/2...
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Brian Grawburg
cuthbert_twi...
Mar 27, 2006 1:09 pm
John, I have DeScribe for networks on my eCS system. It sees other OS/2 mapped drives. The way our network is currently setup (mixed OS/2 and W2000) I can't...
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John Angelico
talldad0
Mar 27, 2006 1:25 pm
... Hi Brian (says John, taking advantage of the time zone factor<g>) ... Do you have mapped drive letters? ... Before you spend a lot of time on this just on...
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J. Pfisterer
roscomare
Apr 2, 2006 9:39 pm
Here's one for any WordStar MailMerge experts in the audience. I'm still using v7.0 DOS WordStar as my primary word processor, and have developed a number of...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Apr 3, 2006 6:32 pm
In <7273891114401066918314094@...>, on 04/02/06 ... Can you arrange to have a variable entry that you just enter as a blank? You can place the data in...
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J. Pfisterer
roscomare
Apr 3, 2006 9:59 pm
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:26:26 -0700 "Steven Levine" <steve53@...> wrote ... AAMOF, that's what I did. The ".av" (accept variable) lines: .av "Press...
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J. Pfisterer
roscomare
Jun 6, 2006 6:43 pm
Yahoo! Groups has just introduced a "Fully featured new and improved" format for group messages, featuring color, HTML formatting and links for instant access...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 6, 2006 8:47 pm
Good afternoon, Forgive me if this message sounds like it should have been written 10 years ago... Over the past year or so, our company has undergone the...
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Adrian Suri
adriansuri
Jun 6, 2006 9:58 pm
I think it was a purchase job from another compay who wrote, though I am assuming ibm upgaded it for warp 4 Adrian...
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Sten Solberg
slbrgstn
Jun 6, 2006 10:37 pm
... I just checked my own installation. All the IBMWorks apps works, *except* 'ibmworks.exe', which seems to load but never appears... Best regards Sten...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 12:11 am
... Thanks for the input... this is quite perplexing, really, as everything else seems to work fine. I've used the spreadsheet, though not often. I've...
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Sten Solberg
slbrgstn
Jun 7, 2006 1:31 am
... I seem to remember an *.exe or *.cmd file called "idwreg" or something similar, but I can't find it on my system. Not sure if it had the same function as...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Jun 7, 2006 1:56 am
In <e64p8e+i8va@eGroups.com>, on 06/06/06 at 08:40 PM, "Dylan L. Weber" <dlweber@...> ... Well, you might have had an easier time...
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Steven Levine
steve53hoo
Jun 7, 2006 2:00 am
In <200606070131.k571V8EB000118@...>, on 06/07/06 ... Although they have their uses, neither ibmwdesk.cmd or iwdegreg.cmd are required for...
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Sorin Srbu
adrian_vg
Jun 7, 2006 6:50 am
... Is Describe still around or has it become Abandonware?...
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Jeffrey Race
aje36002
Jun 7, 2006 7:02 am
There is a very nice OS/2 WordStar clone; somebody on this list will know the name :)...
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Jeffrey Race
aje36002
Jun 7, 2006 7:04 am
... In fact I still use WordStar for DOS. Runs like a demon on OS/2!...
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Adrian Suri
adriansuri
Jun 7, 2006 9:29 am
That is really strange, mine seems to work ok, it simply opens the IBM works dialog to choose what action you want, i.e. new file / template / open file etc....
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Adrian Suri
adriansuri
Jun 7, 2006 9:32 am
But did you notice it came at the cost of no more Java chat... hence no more yahoo chat under OS/2 adrian...
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Kris Steenhaut
krissteenhaut
Jun 7, 2006 10:20 am
... It's not only Yahoo of course. Apparently all sites are quickly moving to Flash type chatting (-: -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris...
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John Angelico
talldad0
Jun 7, 2006 11:17 am
... Yes, and yes ... he said enigmatically :-) Yes, it's still around, but only as Abandonware. People still have a) the CDs - last release was called Voyager ...
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Sorin Srbu
adrian_vg
Jun 7, 2006 12:35 pm
John Angelico <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:04 PM: Oh, I have the voyager version myself, wrote my masters thesis with it. I was thinking for this...
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Philip Griffin-Allwood
griffwoodca
Jun 7, 2006 12:54 pm
** Reply to message from "Jeffrey Race" <jrace@...> on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:03:30 +0700 Wednesday 07 June 2006 Wednesday 07 June 2006 ... For...
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Sten Solberg
slbrgstn
Jun 7, 2006 1:07 pm
... As I thought. But your mention of the ibmworks.ini was the key. I had moved IBMWorks from h:\programs\ibmworks (boot partition) to another partition ...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 4:47 pm
... a long ... Describe ... Thanks, Sten, I'll certainly let you all know if I'm successful--I probably wont' have time to look at it again until this weekend,...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 5:09 pm
... I never learned much about WordStar. A friend of mine in school had it back in the late '80s (on some sort of Tandy machine), so I played with it a bit,...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 5:10 pm
I can get this far, as well... If I create a new spreadsheet, everything works fine...I can also use the Chart utility, the Data Filer or the Report Writer....
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 5:15 pm
Thanks for the comments, Steven, I'm going to gather a little more information about each of these machines and try to find out what the common denominators...
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Philip Griffin-Allwood
griffwoodca
Jun 7, 2006 5:19 pm
** Reply to message from "Dylan L. Weber" <dlweber@...> on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:46:18 -0000 Wednesday 07 June 2006 Hi Dylan! ... For OS/2...
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Dylan L. Weber
sweda85s
Jun 7, 2006 5:21 pm
Thanks, Phil, I had never heard of Write & Set before, but I'll be certain to look it up. I have heard of WPDOS.ORG, and have visited it on occasion. Dylan ......
