The Netlabs projects: The most promising set of open source projects can be found here. Most of the authors also have their own pages on the internet, or an email address. These utilities all can be found on Hobbes or the OS/2 Supersite or are commercial programs. There are a lot of useful utilities for OS/2 Warp. In the same way you can move a window in the background by using the control key while moving the window. You can scroll a window in the background by pressing the control key while scrolling. Just drop the image on the preview space on the background page of the properties notebook. You can also easily change your background image by drag and drop. BMP), so you can save diskspace by converting your background image to JPEG. You can use any bitmap in a format that OS/2 knows as your desktop background. To extract an archive, just copy it to its own directory and double click. Create an unzip object with as filename unzip.exe and associate this program object with *.zip. (In the example I use unzip.exe, but you can substitute that with most archivers). You can easily create a one-click unpacker for the Workplace Shell. You can prevent the WPS from starting applications during startup by pressing Ctrl-LeftShift-F1 when the desktop first appears. And finally you can change the appearance of the clock by adding this line to your config.sys:. You can change the behaviour of the WarpCenter menus to follow your mousepointer (like in Windows) by adding the following line to your config.sys:. You can also replace the find utility by another program by adding the following line to your config.sys:. You can add a kill function to the SmartCenter by adding the following line to your config.sys:. In the Window List just select the desktop. It is easy to hide all programs from the WarpCenter. You can open the properties of an object in the WarpCenter by pressing the Ctrl key while clicking on the object with the mouse. If wanted you can put the removable media in a separate folder on the WarpCenter. You can let the drives pop-up more quickly by replacing the drives folder on the WarpCenter with a drives folder with only the fixed disks on it. First of all you can make your WarpCenter more stable by removing WARPCENTER from the line SET AUTOSTART= in your config.sys and place a shadow of the WarpCenter object in the StartUp folder. If you drop a file on the commanline prompt, it will open a commandline and directly go to the directory in which the file resides. You can open a folder in the WPS from the commandline if you create a rexx file open.cmd like this:Ĭall RxFuncAdd SysLoadFuncs, RexxUtil, SysLoadFuncsĬall SysOpenObject folder, 'icon', _wpOpen. -qQUEUENAME: send commands to the named queue. DHCPMON: The PMShell DHCP Monitor can also work in commandline mode, and has some usefull, undocumented (well, if you look in the binary you can find them) parameters:. 
Combined with the /ONCE and the /V:"label" parameter you can format your disk really quick. With the parameter /Q you can perform a quick format.
FORMAT: Format has also one undocumented parameter, and one that was wanted by many OS/2 users. When this parameter is used, the attributes of the files will be showed too. DIR: Besides the documented parameters /A /B /F /L /N /O /P /R /S /W has this command one undocumented parameter /V. Some of the OS/2 Commandline commands have undocumented features that are really useful. Please note that Stardock, though still listed here has withdrawn from the OS/2 market, the Stardock product can only be bought while stocks last at the resellers (like Mensys). 
All the tips discussed here work equally well on eComStation! The most important of these are OS/2 Inside, OS/2 Magazine and Cincy TeamOS/2, which all unfortunately don’t exist anymore. Without them this list would be a lot shorter. In this section I will discuss some well, and some less well known tricks.I must say thank you to the magazines and sites which published many of these tips before. I have slightly updated it, but consider this a historic document anyway.Įven without special programs you can do a lot with OS/2 Warp 4.0 to make your life easier. This is a repost of a Tips & Tricks page I had on my old homepage.
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