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| 2 | ³  F(ile) M(anager)/2 is free software from Mark Kimes ³ | 
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| 4 | ³       See end of document for contact info           ³ | 
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| 5 | ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ | 
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| 6 |  | 
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| 7 | FM/2 3.16: This release makes changes that should allow FM/2 to be | 
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| 8 | translated into different languages. It also adds date and number | 
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| 9 | formatting based on the system locale settings. We now need to find | 
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| 10 | some individuals who are interested in doing the translations. | 
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| 11 | Currently, double bit character sets are not supported in FM/2. | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 | We have also fixed multiple minor annoyances such as improving | 
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| 14 | detection of text verses binary files when opening viewers and | 
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| 15 | filtering/(de)select mask now works for archives with pathnames. | 
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| 16 | We added the ability to turn error/alert beeps on and off in the | 
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| 17 | settings notebook (General page) and changes to the details switches | 
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| 18 | in compare directories are now saved. See the history for more details. | 
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| 19 |  | 
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| 20 | FM/2 3.15: This release turns on some new features by default | 
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| 21 | don't panic they can all be turned off if you don't like them. | 
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| 22 | The first is recursive scanning on start up. This slows the initial | 
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| 23 | scan a bit but speeds expansion of the tree later. It is on for | 
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| 24 | local hard drives and can be turned on for other drive types. The | 
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| 25 | second new feature is an automatic rescan of the drive tree on | 
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| 26 | eject of removable media keeping the tree container more current. | 
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| 27 | Both of these features can be turn on or off on the scanning page | 
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| 28 | of the notebook. The third new feature actually turns write verify | 
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| 29 | off on a per drive basis. This is to address the fact that many | 
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| 30 | USB removables fail or worse (hangs/traps) when write verify is on. | 
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| 31 | We turn it off by default for removables other than standard floppies. | 
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| 32 | If you want it on/off for a given drive edit that drive's drive flags | 
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| 33 | accordingly. The global write verify selector is unchanged and the | 
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| 34 | drive flags have no effect if it is off. | 
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| 35 |  | 
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| 36 | We have some additional new items we hope you will find useful. We | 
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| 37 | have added the ability to have the extract commands create a | 
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| 38 | subdirectory based on the archive file name for the extraction target. | 
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| 39 | Seek and Scan has been added to the drives and directories context | 
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| 40 | menu and when selected from there will add the drive or directory as | 
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| 41 | the root for the search. We also added refresh removable media so | 
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| 42 | you can scan for newly inserted drives from the tree container | 
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| 43 | We did some additional work on the main menus like adding Databar | 
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| 44 | to the utilities menu and we now gray out items that are unavailable | 
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| 45 | or inappropriate and un-grayed some items that were inappropriately | 
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| 46 | turned off. We reorganized the internal editor menus as well. | 
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| 47 |  | 
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| 48 | We made changes to the archiver code so that archivers that don't | 
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| 49 | have specific start/end list strings will work (ie TAR.EXE). We | 
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| 50 | have included the commands for .tar .tar.gz and .tar.bz in archiver.tmp | 
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| 51 | (gzip.exe and/or bzip.exe must be in the path) These only work with tar 1.15 | 
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| 52 | or higher. We included a separate entry for TAR 1.10 but versions of TAR prior | 
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| 53 | to 1.15 don't work for tar.gz/bz2 files. You can either replace archiver.bb2 | 
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| 54 | with the archiver.tmp or if you have made changes to archiver.bb2 you can cut | 
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| 55 | and paste the new archiver definitions into an appropriate position in your | 
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| 56 | existing archiver.bb2 | 
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| 57 |  | 
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| 58 | Numerous fixes to minor interface appearance and behavior issues are also include. | 
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| 59 | We have added exceptq support to make it easier to track down defects. We | 
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| 60 | also eliminated the cause of three rare traps including one associated with | 
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| 61 | deleting directories. See the history file for more details. | 
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| 62 |  | 
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| 63 | FM/2 3.14: This release updates many of the icons and bitmaps | 
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| 64 | used in FM/2. In addition, more updates have been made to the | 
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| 65 | toolbars to activate the new toolbars follow the instruction for | 
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| 66 | using CFGMGR in the section about version 3.13. One other change | 
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| 67 | may require some user intervention. Inadvertently the expected | 
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| 68 | name of the filters data file was change in version 3.12 from | 
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| 69 | filters.dat to filter.dat. We have corrected this, however, this | 
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| 70 | means your filters may be spread across 2 different files or may | 
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| 71 | seem to have disappeared. If they have disappeared go to the FM/2 | 
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| 72 | directory and rename the file filter.dat to filters.dat. This should | 
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| 73 | restore your saved filters. If you find you have both filter.dat and | 
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| 74 | filters.dat use a text editor to add the contents of filter.dat | 
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| 75 | to filters.dat. | 
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| 76 |  | 
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| 77 | This release also contains some menu changes with unformatted drives | 
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| 78 | using the "drives" context menu, the elimination of more than one | 
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| 79 | default on some submenus and menu items such as "format" being | 
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| 80 | disabled for network drives and enabled for removables. Some of the | 
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| 81 | changes should make FM/2 more responsive (Let us know if you notice | 
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| 82 | a difference). We have also included some bug fixes. | 
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| 83 |  | 
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| 84 | FM/2 3.13: Many of the changes in this release are related to | 
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| 85 | the toolbars. A new feature is that the current toolbar, along | 
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| 86 | with the current Target directory, are now saved and restored | 
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| 87 | with states. Toolbar code and documentation has been improved, new | 
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| 88 | toolbar button bitmaps have been added and bugs have been fixed. | 
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| 89 |  | 
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| 90 | The installation of FM/2 will not replace existing user | 
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| 91 | customization files like the toolbar files. So, if this is not | 
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| 92 | your first installation of FM/2, some of these improvements will | 
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| 93 | not be available because of the old, pre v3.13 toolbar files. It | 
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| 94 | is therefore recommended that you run the following: | 
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| 95 |  | 
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| 96 | CFGMGR /INSTALL /DEFAULTS /TOOLBARSONLY /UNATTENDED | 
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| 97 |  | 
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| 98 | CFGMGR is a REXX program located in the FM/2 installation directory. | 
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| 99 | If run as given above it will copy your existing toolbar files into | 
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| 100 | a "User_config_backup" subdirectory and then install FM/2 default | 
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| 101 | toolbar files. If you have done some customizations of FM/2 toolbars | 
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| 102 | you can use a text editor and/or file comparison utility like GFC | 
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| 103 | to "merge" your changes, now found in the backup subdirectory, | 
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| 104 | with the default files now found in the FM/2 directory. If you want | 
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| 105 | more control over the operation of CFGMGR, then leave off the | 
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| 106 | /UNATTENDED parameter. Without the /UNATTENDED parameter CFGMGR | 
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| 107 | will ask your permission before replacing each file. | 
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| 108 |  | 
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| 109 | The delete = move to trash can is off by default (turn it on on the | 
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| 110 | General settings notebook page). FM/2 now checks for adequate disk | 
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| 111 | space to avoid data loss. | 
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| 112 |  | 
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| 113 | We also fixed some additional bugs and provide some performance | 
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| 114 | enhancements. If you have had trouble with "broken pipe" errors | 
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| 115 | copying to a netdrives samba drive let me know if it now works | 
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| 116 | better. I have built in some retries for this error but can't test | 
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| 117 | it since I don't see the problem. Also please report back to us anytime | 
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| 118 | you see the Debug error report to author box with as much detail about | 
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| 119 | what you were doing as possible. Thanks | 
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| 120 |  | 
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| 121 | FM/2 3.12 Fixes a bug introduced in 3.11 (trap when viewing | 
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| 122 | multiple files from an archive at the same time). It also adds | 
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| 123 | Open Default, Open Settings and via an accel key ctrl + l Open | 
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| 124 | Multimedia (using FM2play.exe) to the archive viewer. FM/2 now | 
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| 125 | uses the system TMP/TEMP directory for it temporary files and | 
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| 126 | cleans up after a crash on the next restart. FM/2 creates a | 
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| 127 | subdirectory of the pattern $FM2*.*. The settings notebook can | 
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| 128 | now be closed using esc, F3 or enter; the last 2 save any | 
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| 129 | changes that have been made. You can now select which environment | 
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| 130 | variables to show when using show the environment in the drive | 
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| 131 | tree. Just add or remove from the list on the "Tree" page of | 
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| 132 | the notebook. It defaults initially to the current list. You can | 
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| 133 | now save/append either a full pathname or just a filename or a | 
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| 134 | list of either to the clipboard. We have changed the wording | 
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| 135 | in the menus to make this easier to find. We fixed a few other | 
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| 136 | minor issues see the history for more details. | 
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| 137 |  | 
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| 138 | FM/2 3.11 adds the option of having delete move the objects | 
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| 139 | to the Xworkplace trashcan. Undelete will open the trashcan | 
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| 140 | so you can restore deleted files. The only short coming is you | 
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| 141 | will need to rescan in order to see the restored file. | 
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| 142 | We also added a reserved state which allows you to return | 
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| 143 | FM/2 to the state it was in on start up (the shut down state). | 
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| 144 | We have improved the filtering of file names that contain | 
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| 145 | multiple periods and fixed FM/2's failure to always follow | 
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| 146 | the details settings from the setup notebook. The primary | 
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| 147 | task achieved for this release was the addition of fortify | 
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| 148 | support which allowed us to fix a handful of memory usage | 
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| 149 | related bugs. We fixed a few other minor issues see the | 
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| 150 | history for more details. | 
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| 151 |  | 
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| 152 | Fm/2 3.10 adds the ability to set the command line length | 
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| 153 | to correspond to the command shell you are using. We have | 
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| 154 | moved some menu items to submenus to reduce menu clutter | 
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| 155 | while adding "unhide" to reveal previously hidden items and | 
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| 156 | adding a settings notebook submenu to allow selection of the | 
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| 157 | page you wish to visit. We have updated the look of several | 
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| 158 | dialogs and containers including adding the ability to remember | 
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| 159 | size location and presentation parameters. We have reworked | 
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| 160 | the save state on close so it will save the different states | 
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| 161 | of multiple directory containers and in greater detail. This | 
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| 162 | state can also be restored at anytime during a session by | 
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| 163 | selecting it from the "States" drop down. We have provided better | 
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| 164 | progress indicators to update the progress of long operations. | 
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| 165 | We now provide both the SYM & MAP files in a separate warpin | 
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| 166 | package. This will allow interested individuals the tools needed | 
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| 167 | to assist with analyzing any problem that may occur. This | 
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| 168 | package is not needed to run FM/2. As always this update | 
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| 169 | provides some performance enhancements and defect fixes. | 
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| 170 |  | 
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| 171 | FM/2 3.09 adds "mailto:" so you can configure the ability to | 
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| 172 | double click an email address in the new viewer and have it | 
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| 173 | open a new email using that address. The viewer page in the | 
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| 174 | settings notebook was split into 2 pages to facilitate the | 
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| 175 | change. Additionally, We fixed some defects and enhanced | 
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| 176 | performance in some areas such as commandline quoting. | 
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| 177 |  | 
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| 178 | FM/2 3.08 has had changes to its file filtering logic. | 
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| 179 | It now searches for the last extension if a mask like *.zip | 
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| 180 | is used. This change was made to over come the problem with | 
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| 181 | associations failing on files with multiple ".". You can | 
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| 182 | also search for a complete string within the file names by | 
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| 183 | using the pattern *stuff* (stuff can't contain an * or ?). | 
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| 184 | If "stuff" contains an * or ? the old method of searching | 
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| 185 | (character by character)is used.Large (>4GiB) file support | 
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| 186 | has been added. | 
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| 187 |  | 
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| 188 | FM/2 3.07 had changes made to its ini file structure. | 
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| 189 | These changes mean that the ini file is not backward | 
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| 190 | compatible. Please backup you FM3.INI file before installing | 
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| 191 | so you can revert to an earlier version without losing some | 
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| 192 | of your customizations. Please note you need to leave a copy | 
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| 193 | of the fm3.ini file in the install directory in order to keep your | 
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| 194 | customizations in 3.07. The temp file fm3.!!! will not update | 
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| 195 | the new ini as it is only used when fm2 is running. | 
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| 196 |  | 
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| 197 | File Manager/2 (FM/2) starting with version 3.6 is being | 
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| 198 | built with OpenWatcom. Changing compilers can introduce | 
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| 199 | unexpected problem so you may want to backup your current | 
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| 200 | install, or at minimum have a working copy of the FM/2 | 
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| 201 | version 3.5.9 warpin available for reinstall if problems arise. | 
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| 202 | To backup your current install simple zip up your install | 
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| 203 | directory with its subdirectories or copy them to a different | 
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| 204 | location.To restore simply copy the old FM/2 back to the | 
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| 205 | its original location. Remember you can't use the new FM/2 | 
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| 206 | to do this since if it is running some files will be locked | 
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| 207 | and won't be replaced. If you didn't backup and need to go | 
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| 208 | back just install the 3.5.9 warpin package over the new | 
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| 209 | install. It will warn you that the install is newer but just | 
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| 210 | tell it to install anyway. The warpin install process is | 
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| 211 | designed to save all your customizations. Don't delete the | 
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| 212 | new install if you don't have a backup since this will result | 
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| 213 | in the loss of any custom changes you have made. If you need | 
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| 214 | to delete it to get the reinstall to work. Backup up the new | 
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| 215 | install and then copy the *.bmp, *.tls, *.dat, *.cmd & *.ini | 
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| 216 | files back to the install directory after the reinstall. | 
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| 217 | Don't copy the *.str files as they are version specific. | 
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| 218 | If you have problems be sure to report it (See Support | 
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| 219 | at the end of this file). | 
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| 220 |  | 
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| 221 | File Manager/2 (FM/2) is a free OS/2(Warp)/eCS Presentation | 
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| 222 | Manager 32-bit file/directory/archive maintenance utility | 
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| 223 | (a sort of super-Drives object, something midway between the | 
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| 224 | Drives objects and a more traditional file manager) with plenty | 
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| 225 | of bells, whistles and utilities, drag and drop, context menus, | 
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| 226 | toolbars, bubble help and accelerator keys. If you know how | 
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| 227 | to use OS/2, you already know how to use most of FM/2. You | 
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| 228 | can easily glean the rest from the extensive online help, | 
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| 229 | including tutorials. | 
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| 230 |  | 
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| 231 | This document explains how to install FM/2, including | 
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| 232 | upgrading from previous versions. It explains command line | 
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| 233 | syntaxes (parameters in a program object) and how to get the | 
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| 234 | program(s) running. The online help tells you how to | 
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| 235 | actually use FM/2. I'll try to keep this brief. | 
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| 236 |  | 
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| 237 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it | 
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| 238 | and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | 
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| 239 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | 
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| 240 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | 
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| 241 | version. | 
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| 242 |  | 
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| 243 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | 
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| 244 | useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied | 
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| 245 | warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR | 
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| 246 | PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more | 
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| 247 | details. | 
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| 248 |  | 
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| 249 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | 
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| 250 | License along with this program; if not, write to the Free | 
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| 251 | Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, | 
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| 252 | Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | 
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| 253 |  | 
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| 254 |  | 
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| 255 | FM/2 3.x installation instructions: | 
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| 256 | ================================== | 
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| 257 |  | 
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| 258 | Pre-requisite: | 
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| 259 | WarpIN 0.9.20 or higher must be installed. | 
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| 260 |  | 
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| 261 | Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 ZIP file distribution | 
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| 262 | --------------------------------------------------------- | 
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| 263 |  | 
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| 264 | 1. Unpack the FM2*.ZIP archive in a private directory (for | 
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| 265 | example, C:\TMP). (UNZIP.EXE works nicely to unpack the | 
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| 266 | file.) Two WPI files, FM2.WPI and FM2UTILS.WPI will be | 
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| 267 | unzipped. | 
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| 268 |  | 
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| 269 | 2. Follow the instructions for installing from WPI file(s) | 
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| 270 | below. | 
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| 271 |  | 
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| 272 |  | 
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| 273 | Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 WPI file distribution | 
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| 274 | --------------------------------------------------------- | 
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| 275 |  | 
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| 276 | 1. Open the WPS folder containing the WPI file(s). | 
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| 277 |  | 
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| 278 | 2. Double click on FM2.WPI. Since WarpIN associates itself | 
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| 279 | with WPI files this will start WarpIN with FM2.WPI as the | 
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| 280 | parameter. | 
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| 281 |  | 
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| 282 | 3, You may then install FM/2 to a directory of your choice | 
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| 283 | and, if FM2UTILS.WPI is present, install FM/2 Utilities to | 
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| 284 | a directory of your choice. | 
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| 285 |  | 
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| 286 | NOTE: If you double click on FM2UTILS.WPI instead of | 
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| 287 | FM2.WPI, you will only be able to install the FM/2 | 
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| 288 | Utilities. It is recommended that, even if you only want to | 
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| 289 | install FM/2 Utilities, that you do so using FM2.WPI. | 
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| 290 |  | 
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| 291 |  | 
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| 292 | Moving FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities: | 
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| 293 | ---------------------------------- | 
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| 294 |  | 
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| 295 | 1. Copy your existing installation directory to the new | 
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| 296 | location. | 
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| 297 |  | 
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| 298 | 2. If you have added your own icons to any of the FM/2 | 
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| 299 | folders, then you should move them elsewhere temporarily. | 
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| 300 |  | 
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| 301 | 3. Follow the instructions for de-installing below. | 
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| 302 |  | 
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| 303 | 4. Re-install the package using the installation | 
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| 304 | instructions above. This will update the WarpIN database and | 
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| 305 | reset your icons to the new locations. | 
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| 306 |  | 
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| 307 | 5. Move the icons you saved in step #2, back into the FM/2 | 
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| 308 | folders if you wish. | 
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| 309 |  | 
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| 310 |  | 
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| 311 | De-installing FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities: | 
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| 312 | ----------------------------------------- | 
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| 313 |  | 
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| 314 | 1. Run Warpin without parameters. | 
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| 315 |  | 
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| 316 | 2. Right click on a package you want to de-install and | 
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| 317 | select "de-install all packages". | 
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| 318 |  | 
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| 319 | 3. Click on OK in the "De-install Packages" window that | 
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| 320 | appears. | 
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| 321 |  | 
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| 322 |  | 
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| 323 |  | 
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| 324 | ================= | 
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| 325 | First-time notes: | 
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| 326 | ================= | 
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| 327 |  | 
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| 328 | Starting FM/2 -- how it works, customizing parameters: | 
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| 329 |  | 
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| 330 | If you start File Manager/2 (filename FM3.EXE) with no | 
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| 331 | parameters, it opens the Drive Tree window but no directory | 
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| 332 | windows (unless the "Save state of dir windows" toggle is | 
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| 333 | checked -- see online help). | 
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| 334 |  | 
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| 335 | File Manager/2 optionally accepts names of directories in | 
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| 336 | the parameters field of its program object; it'll open a | 
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| 337 | directory window for each one. Hint: If you often do | 
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| 338 | different specific things with FM/2, you might set up a WPS | 
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| 339 | object customized to start up ideally for each activity. For | 
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| 340 | example, if you wanted to maintain your BBS areas, you might | 
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| 341 | have one object with parameters like: "D:\BBSDIR | 
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| 342 | D:\BBSDIR\MAILIN D:\BBSDIR\MAILOUT", and if you also like to | 
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| 343 | use FM/2 to set icons on files, you might have another | 
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| 344 | object with parameters like: "E:\MYICONS D:\NEWFILES". The | 
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| 345 | State quicklist can also be used for this within FM/2 itself | 
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| 346 | -- see online help. | 
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| 347 |  | 
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| 348 | You can exclude drives in the parameters by prefacing the | 
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| 349 | drive letter with "/", and there can be more than one drive | 
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| 350 | letter behind the "/" (i.e. "/BH" to exclude both drives B: | 
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| 351 | and H:). Hint: Many people like to use /B to exclude | 
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| 352 | "phantom" drive B: if they have a single-floppy system. | 
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| 353 | Similarly, you can cause drives NOT to be prescanned by the | 
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| 354 | Drive Tree by prefacing the drive letter with ";", drives | 
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| 355 | NOT to load icons for objects by prefacing the drive letter | 
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| 356 | with ",", drives NOT to load subjects for objects by | 
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| 357 | prefacing the drive letter with "`" and drives NOT to load | 
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| 358 | longnames for objects by prefacing the drive letter with | 
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| 359 | "'". This can be handy if you have a very slow drive like a | 
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| 360 | CD-ROM or Zip drive. FM/2 Lite recognizes these switches, | 
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| 361 | too. See also the Drive Flags dialog in FM/2. | 
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| 362 |  | 
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| 363 | If you place the plus sign "+" (alone, separated from | 
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| 364 | anything else by spaces) in the parameters, FM/2 will log, | 
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| 365 | to FM2.LOG, delete, rename, move and copy operations that | 
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| 366 | are performed by drag-and-drop or with the menus. FM/2 Lite | 
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| 367 | recognizes this switch, too. | 
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| 368 |  | 
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| 369 | The parameter "-" (alone, separated from anything else by | 
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| 370 | spaces) causes FM/2 to ignore, not load or save, the | 
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| 371 | previous state of directory windows (see the "Save state of | 
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| 372 | dir windows" toggle under Config Menu->Toggles in the online | 
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| 373 | help) for that invocation. | 
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| 374 |  | 
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| 375 | You can specify the name of an alternate INI file with | 
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| 376 | "-<inifilename>" -- for example: "-C:\FM2\MYINI.INI". | 
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| 377 |  | 
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| 378 | You can also specify the INI file location with the | 
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| 379 | environment variable FM2INI -- for example: | 
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| 380 | SET FM2INI=C:\FM2\MYINI.INI. | 
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| 381 |  | 
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| 382 |  | 
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| 383 | ------------------------------ | 
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| 384 | How to get started using FM/2: | 
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| 385 | ----------------------------- | 
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| 386 | Please read the following sections in the online help when | 
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| 387 | you start FM/2 for the first time: "How to use FM/2's Help," | 
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| 388 | "Terminology" and "General Help," then "Hints." A peek at | 
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| 389 | the labeled "Window Layouts" pictures would probably be a | 
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| 390 | good idea, too. The rest you can browse as you get time/feel | 
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| 391 | the need; for instance, if you want to know what a toggle | 
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| 392 | does, read the help under Settings notebook for that page | 
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| 393 | (each Settings notebook page has its own Help button). | 
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| 394 |  | 
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| 395 | If you prefer hard copy help, print this file, run FM/2, | 
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| 396 | press F1, click the "Print" button at the bottom (IBM View) | 
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| 397 | or top (Newview)of the help window that appears and then print | 
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| 398 | both the "Contents" and "All sections" (keep an eye on the printer, | 
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| 399 | after page 100 of "All sections" as the Help Manager will | 
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| 400 | begin printing its own help then -- you may want to abort | 
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| 401 | printing at that point). Advanced and/or curious users may | 
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| 402 | also want to print FM3TOOLS.DAT and ARCHIVER.BB2. Be sure | 
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| 403 | you have plenty of paper and ink handy -- the package is | 
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| 404 | well documented. You'll probably also want a three-ring | 
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| 405 | binder and hole punch to get it bound, as staples aren't | 
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| 406 | going through that puppy. You can, of course, print only the | 
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| 407 | sections that are of particular interest to you. | 
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| 408 |  | 
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| 409 | Additional documentation: | 
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| 410 | ------------------------ | 
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| 411 | FM3.HLP:        FM/2's online help file. | 
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| 412 |  | 
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| 413 | Look in the FM/2 Docs subfolder of the File Manager/2 folder | 
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| 414 | for easy access to all documentation. | 
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| 415 |  | 
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| 416 |  | 
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| 417 | Bonus programs: | 
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| 418 | ============== | 
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| 419 |  | 
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| 420 | You'll note the extra objects that the Install program | 
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| 421 | creates in the FM/2 Tools subfolder of the File Manager/2 | 
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| 422 | folder. FM/2 is modular, so that you can get directly to | 
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| 423 | some of its components without running the entire ball of | 
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| 424 | wax. This may allow you to enhance the behavior of some of | 
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| 425 | your other applications in the WPS tradition. You don't | 
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| 426 | _have_ to keep these around, of course -- FM/2 itself | 
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| 427 | contains all their functionality. | 
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| 428 |  | 
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| 429 | ARCHIVE VIEWER/2: Intended for drag-and-drop operation (or | 
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| 430 | WPS association) with WPS objects or other applications. | 
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| 431 | Drag an archive onto it, drop it, get an archive listing | 
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| 432 | box. FM/2's installation program sets up some associations | 
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| 433 | between archive files and this program by file extension. | 
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| 434 | AV/2 will try to display whatever you give it as | 
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| 435 | sensibly as it can. Filename AV2.EXE. | 
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| 436 |  | 
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| 437 | EA VIEWER: Drag a file system object onto it and it'll show | 
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| 438 | you the object's extended attributes. Filename EAS.EXE. | 
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| 439 |  | 
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| 440 | INI VIEWER: Drag an .INI file onto it and it'll show you its | 
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| 441 | contents. Filename INI.EXE. | 
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| 442 |  | 
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| 443 | BOOKSHELF VIEWER: Shows all .INF files in a listbox and lets | 
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| 444 | you pick the one(s) you want to view. If you give any | 
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| 445 | command line argument, the .HLP files on the HELP path will | 
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| 446 | be shown instead (the Helpfile Viewer object calls | 
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| 447 | VIEWINFS.EXE with "dummy" for an argument, for example). | 
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| 448 | Filename VIEWINFS.EXE. | 
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| 449 |  | 
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| 450 | PROCESS KILLER: Lets you kill off renegade processes. An | 
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| 451 | English version of PSTAT.EXE must be on your PATH. Filename | 
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| 452 | KILLPROC.EXE. | 
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| 453 |  | 
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| 454 | UNDELETE: Lets you undelete files (via interface with | 
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| 455 | UNDELETE.COM). Drag a file system object onto it and it'll | 
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| 456 | let you undelete files for that drive. Filename UNDEL.EXE. | 
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| 457 |  | 
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| 458 | VISUAL TREE: Opens a Drive Tree window (like the WPS Drives | 
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| 459 | object with more horsepower). Filename VTREE.EXE. | 
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| 460 |  | 
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| 461 | VISUAL DIRECTORY: Opens a Directory Container window; drag a | 
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| 462 | file system object onto it and this will open its directory | 
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| 463 | (like a WPS directory Folder with more horsepower). Filename | 
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| 464 | VDIR.EXE. | 
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| 465 |  | 
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| 466 | COLLECTOR: Opens a Collector window. Filename VCOLLECT.EXE. | 
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| 467 | Two other objects, "See all files" and "Seek and scan" are | 
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| 468 | created which call up the Collector and go directly to | 
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| 469 | dialogs for the appropriate purpose. | 
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| 470 |  | 
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| 471 | GLOBAL VIEWER: Opens a global view of a drive or drives. | 
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| 472 | Filename GLOBAL.EXE. | 
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| 473 |  | 
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| 474 | DATABAR: Opens a databar showing some system information. | 
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| 475 | Filename DATABAR.EXE. | 
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| 476 |  | 
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| 477 | DIRSIZE: Shows where drive usage is concentrated. Filename | 
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| 478 | DIRSIZE.EXE. | 
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| 479 |  | 
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| 480 | FM/2 LITE: A simplified interface for "dummies." Filename | 
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| 481 | FM4.EXE. | 
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| 482 |  | 
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| 483 | FM/2's install creates FM2.CMD, AV2.CMD, VDIR.CMD, | 
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| 484 | VTREE.CMD, VCOLLECT.CMD, UNDEL.CMD, KILLPROC.CMD, INI.CMD, | 
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| 485 | EAS.CMD, DIRSIZE.CMD, VIEWINFS.CMD and VIEWHELP.CMD files | 
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| 486 | for you in a directory "utils" off the install directory. | 
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| 487 | You should add this directory to your PATH= statement in | 
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| 488 | CONFIG.SYS (type HELP PATH at a command line for more info). | 
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| 489 | If you prefer, FM/2's INSTALL builds a SETENV.CMD in the | 
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| 490 | FM/2 directory which you can call to set the PATH for FM/2 | 
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| 491 | in any given session without modifying CONFIG.SYS. | 
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| 492 |  | 
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| 493 |  | 
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| 494 | Troubleshooting: | 
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| 495 | =============== | 
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| 496 |  | 
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| 497 | FM/2 seems much slower than previous versions. | 
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| 498 | The Find Buffer in FM/2 has been reworked to make it user | 
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| 499 | settable in more place and significantly enlarge it. This | 
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| 500 | significantly increases the loading speed for large directories | 
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| 501 | However, most users will need to reset the buffer by going | 
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| 502 | to the settings notebook scanning page and setting FindBuf. | 
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| 503 | The new default for clean installs is 10240. We recommend you | 
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| 504 | change to this setting (or higher) unless you have very limited | 
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| 505 | hardware (less than 32 meg of memory original Pentium or earlier). | 
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| 506 |  | 
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| 507 | If FM/2 won't run, the probable culprit is CONFIG.SYS. Your | 
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| 508 | LIBPATH statement should contain a ".;" entry. If yours | 
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| 509 | doesn't, add it. It's standard for an OS/2 installation, but | 
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| 510 | some buggy install programs knock it out because they | 
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| 511 | translate entries to their full pathname before rewriting | 
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| 512 | (so ".;" gets translated to whatever the current directory | 
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| 513 | is for the buggy install program). What this ".;" entry does | 
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| 514 | is allow a program to find and use .DLL files in the | 
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| 515 | program's current directory -- obviously something you want | 
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| 516 | programs to be able to do, otherwise you'd have to put every | 
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| 517 | application's .DLLs into directories already on the LIBPATH, | 
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| 518 | or add the directories of all applications to the LIBPATH, a | 
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| 519 | rather huge pain in the, uh, neck. | 
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| 520 |  | 
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| 521 | If things in FM/2 are suddenly acting strange after an | 
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| 522 | upgrade, first check the integrity of the install using | 
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| 523 | using WarpIN. If it shows a problem rerun the install | 
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| 524 | package. If that fails try installing to a new directory | 
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| 525 | or backup your existing directory so you can save any changes | 
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| 526 | you made to the template files then uninstall and reinstall. | 
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| 527 | Once you have FM/2 working migrate the *.ini, *.dat, *.tls, | 
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| 528 | *.bb2 and *.cmd from your old install/backup to recover your | 
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| 529 | custom settings | 
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| 530 |  | 
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| 531 | If the "FM/2 Online Help" object in the "FM/2 Docs" | 
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| 532 | subfolder won't work properly, you've got a version of | 
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| 533 | VIEW.EXE that won't directly display help (.HLP) files. Use | 
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| 534 | SEEHELP.EXE from the FM/2 Utilities package to get around | 
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| 535 | this problem (or upgrade your version of OS/2). | 
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| 536 |  | 
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| 537 | Don't drag files over Netscape -- it will lock up if files | 
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| 538 | (not WPS objects; there's a subtle difference) are dragged | 
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| 539 | over it. | 
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| 540 |  | 
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| 541 | If you get a popup dialog that needs to be reported to the | 
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| 542 | maintainer, you can either take a screen shot or you can | 
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| 543 | capture the information from STDERR with: | 
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| 544 |  | 
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| 545 | FM3 2>STDERR.LOG | 
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| 546 |  | 
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| 547 | This technique works for all the FM/2, FM/2 Lite and all the | 
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| 548 | standalone applets. | 
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| 549 |  | 
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| 550 | If you are having trouble with Drag and Drop operations, try | 
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| 551 | the + command line switch described above. The content of | 
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| 552 | FM2.LOG may be helpful. | 
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| 553 |  | 
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| 554 |  | 
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| 555 | Known problems/shortcomings: | 
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| 556 | =========================== | 
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| 557 |  | 
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| 558 | - FM/2 does not properly report sizes of some files with | 
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| 559 | long name resident on Win95/NT drives. | 
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| 560 |  | 
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| 561 | - File List Container fails to fill after drive change | 
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| 562 | SYS0039 error. | 
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| 563 |  | 
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| 564 | - Tree switching on Focus/Directory Change appears to be | 
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| 565 | slower than expected. | 
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| 566 |  | 
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| 567 | - Access to LS120 and FAT32 drives may be slower than expected | 
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| 568 |  | 
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| 569 | - Icon display in Directory Container does not always match | 
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| 570 | WPS icons | 
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| 571 |  | 
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| 572 | - Spurious WPS Objects Handles may be created during some | 
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| 573 | operations | 
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| 574 |  | 
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| 575 | - Trying to run Global.exe from the command line in 4OS2 | 
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| 576 | (perhaps other shells) results in the execution of 4OS2's "Global" | 
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| 577 | command. Global.exe can be run by placing it in quotes or | 
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| 578 | prefixing it with *. See 4OS2's documentation for more information. | 
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| 579 |  | 
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| 580 | - As with any OS/2 program significant changes (such as our | 
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| 581 | change to OpenWatcom) will result in the incompatibility of | 
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| 582 | older (VAC) exes with new dlls and vice versa. Attempting to run | 
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| 583 | OpenWatcom exes with a VAC dll loaded in memory or in your | 
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| 584 | libpath ahead of the new version will result in a SYS3175 in | 
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| 585 | popuplog.os2. The reverse gives a SYS2070. If you experience these | 
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| 586 | problems search your libpath for fm3dll.dll and remove or rename | 
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| 587 | it. Your libpath should have "." (without the quotes) as your | 
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| 588 | first entry to minimize the likelihood of this problem. FM/2's | 
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| 589 | installer does not add the FM/2 directory to the libpath. | 
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| 590 |  | 
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| 591 | - See http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/report/1 for a complete list of | 
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| 592 | currently active bugs | 
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| 593 |  | 
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| 594 |  | 
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| 595 |  | 
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| 596 | About FM/2: | 
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| 597 | ========== | 
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| 598 |  | 
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| 599 | FM/2 was originally written by: | 
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| 600 |  | 
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| 601 | Mark Kimes | 
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| 602 | <hectorplasmic@worldnet.att.net> | 
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| 603 |  | 
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| 604 | He has kindly allowed me to take over maintenance and | 
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| 605 | support of FM/2 and to release the program under the GNU GPL | 
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| 606 | license. I'm sure he would appreciate a Thank You note for | 
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| 607 | his generosity. | 
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| 608 |  | 
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| 609 | Support: | 
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| 610 | ======= | 
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| 611 |  | 
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| 612 | There is a Yahoo group devoted to fm/2 at: | 
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| 613 |  | 
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| 614 | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fm2user/ | 
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| 615 |  | 
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| 616 | This group is now closed but it still contains some useful information | 
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| 617 |  | 
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| 618 | There is a new mailing list at: | 
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| 619 |  | 
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| 620 | fm2-user@netlabs.org | 
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| 621 |  | 
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| 622 | To subscribe send an email to: | 
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| 623 |  | 
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| 624 | fm2-user-subscribe@netlabs.org | 
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| 625 |  | 
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| 626 | The subject and body can be empty. | 
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| 627 |  | 
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| 628 | This group is mirrored on Gmane at: | 
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| 629 |  | 
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| 630 | http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.fm2.user | 
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| 631 |  | 
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| 632 | You will find lots of friendly folks ready to help. | 
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| 633 |  | 
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| 634 | FM/2 has moved to Netlabs (thanks Adrian). | 
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| 635 |  | 
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| 636 | Check it out at | 
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| 637 |  | 
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| 638 | http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2 | 
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| 639 |  | 
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| 640 | To create a ticket reporting a defect or requesting an enhancement. | 
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| 641 | You must be logged into TRAC. Please login with your Netlabs login id. | 
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| 642 | If you do not have a login id, you can request one at | 
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| 643 | http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml. | 
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| 644 | If you have troubles acquiring a Netlabs login id send an e-mail to | 
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| 645 | Netlabs Community Mailing List <community@netlabs.org>. | 
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| 646 |  | 
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| 647 | You can also browse the source at this site. | 
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| 648 |  | 
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| 649 | To obtain the source from the SVN use something like the following to check out the trunk | 
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| 650 |  | 
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| 651 | mkdir fm2_workspace | 
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| 652 | cd fm2_workspace | 
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| 653 | svn checkout http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/fm2/trunk trunk | 
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| 654 |  | 
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| 655 | If you wish commit access please contact us directly. | 
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| 656 |  | 
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| 657 | You can reach us directly at: | 
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| 658 |  | 
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| 659 | Steven H. Levine | 
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| 660 | steve53@earthlink.net | 
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| 661 |  | 
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| 662 | or | 
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| 663 |  | 
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| 664 | Gregg Young | 
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| 665 | ygk@qwest.net | 
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| 666 |  | 
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| 667 | We also monitor the comp.os.os2.apps newsgroup, several | 
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| 668 | others in the comp.os.os2.* hierarchy and other groups where | 
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| 669 | release announcements are made. | 
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| 670 |  | 
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| 671 | Thanks and enjoy. | 
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| 672 |  | 
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| 673 | $Id: README 1420 2009-05-10 18:38:27Z gyoung $ | 
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