Cool OS/2 Tricks

By Tim Lauridsen

WarpCenter tricks
Quick change trays is done bye clicking on the empty space in the tray

Change the look of the WarpCenter clock by adding the following line to your Config.sys SET SCUSEPRETTYCLOCK=ON Add a process kill feature to WarpCenter by adding the following line to your config.sys SET KILLFEATUREENABLED=ON The kill feature is used by holding down CTRL and left click on the WarpCenter tasklist icon. then a list of all processes on the system will show. Your can kill a process by a left click on the proccesname. Change the default find utility by adding the following line to your CONFIG.SYS SET SCFINDUTILITY=Programname Make WarpCenter object deleteable by adding the following line to your CONFIG.SYS SET SCCANBENUKED=ON

Installation of OS/2 from a harddisk
There are many reasons why you might want to instal OS/2 from your harddisk. some of them are.


 * Its the fastest way.
 * Your cant get your CDROM drive to work under OS/2.

xcopy f:\os2image c:\os2image\*.* /s \os2image SET OS2_SHELL=sysinst2.exe C:\OS2IMAGE
 * 1) First you have to make a copy of \OS2IMAGE from the OS/2 CDROM to Your Harddisk. you cant do that by boot DOS, in a konfiguration that can access your CDROM Drive.
 * 2) Lets say your have booted on a dos partition called C: and your CDROM drive is called F:.
 * 3) From the root in drive C:
 * 1) create a textfile called os2se20.src, in the root of drive C: with the following line.
 * 1) Make a copy of OS/2 Disk 1.
 * 2) Edit the config.sys file on the copy of disk 1.
 * 3) Change the SET OS2_SHELL line to :
 * 1) Boot on the OS/2 Installation disks. And you are now installing from your harddisk.