Subj : Ha!
To   : Richard Steiner
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Mar 29 2005 03:17 pm

ML>> RS> Put a DEVICE=X:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS statement in CONFIG.SYS!
ML>>
ML>> yup, that's one way... the other is to add them to the "master" DOS
ML>> task... "master" DOS task being the default one created when OS/2
ML>> is/was installed..

 RS> I've done that before, but I don't remember where those are
 RS> anymore...

on my Warp 3 box, they are in "OS2 System"->"command prompts" and i have 
shadows of them in the launch panel or whatever it is called...

ML>> RS> It took me over 12 years to figure that one out...  Sad.  ;-)
ML>>
ML>> OMG! why didn't you ask??

 RS> I'd worked around it.  Most of the time I'm launching specific
 RS> programs directly from 4OS2,

i use that one, too!

 RS> so I never see the prompt, and even when I launch a
 RS> dedicated fullscreen VDM I'm usually in QuikMenu or
 RS> something.

i have had to use HSTART for some things... one of the things that it can do is 
to read driver and setting info from a config file... i use it to start my DOS 
bbs from my OS/2 mailer... i do not load VX00 in all my tasks... only those 
that need access to the fossil ports so i load it in the config for each 
node... i can run up to 255 nodes at once but haven't ever really gone more 
than 6 or 7 at any one time...

ML>>Did you know that you can also "load them high" in the individual
ML>>sessions ic?
ML>>
ML>>settings notebook->session->DOS settings button->dos_device
ML>>
ML>>  SIZE=0 C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.SYS
ML>>  SIZE=0 C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS
ML>>  SIZE=0 C:\SIO\VX00.SYS

 RS> Not sure if I knew about that one or not.  Probably not.

i forget where i saw it but i did and remembered it for use here...

ML>>seems that that last line is what you just discovered ;)

 RS> Yes.  Online help?  That's a concept.  ;-)

no, not the online help... the description of the item in the settings notebook 
for the task i was editing the setting for ;)

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