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                        Frequently Asked Questions Part 2/3

                   PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 2.10 for
           IBM OS/2 2.x, OS/2 WARP, WARP Srv. SMP Presentation Manager
                     Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl July, 1999

                               Version 2.10 Draft
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Contents:

41.) How do I activate and use the PC/2 Spooler Control Window?
42.) Why does the Overview Window sometimes not correspond to the real Desktop
     application mix?
43.) I have configured a Popup Menu, but always get the Setup dialog when
     clicking on the Desktop.
44.) How can I change the default fonts used by PC/2?
45.) What is the addon WPS 2 PC/2 used for?
46.) How can I open WPS Folder Objects from PC/2's Popup Menu?
47.) What is the difference between the "slow" and "fast" version of PC/2.
48.) Why does an installation update of PC/2 not work with active CM/2?
49.) Why does selection of a tiled background bitmap hang OS/2 Warp 3.0?
50.) Do I have to change anything in CONFIG.SYS to run PC/2?
51.) I have defined a Hotkey, but now my favorite program doesn't get this
     key!
52.) What is referred as an *accelerator* key?
53.) Which sequence is used by PC/2 when autostarting programs?
54.) Are duplicate Menuentries allowed?
55.) What's the difference between the Program Title and Window Name?
56.) How can I use a Hotkey that starts a program, each time the Hotkey is
     pressed instead of switching to the running instance?
57.) Can Mouse Button 3 be used instead of Mouse Button 1 to activate the
     Popup Menu or to switch between Virtual Desktops?
58.) What does "Advanced Marking" mean?
59.) If running PC/2 as the WorkPlace Shell process, how can I launch WPS
     Objects or change system settings (as e.g. the background color)?
60.) I've activated Advanced Marking, now both mouse buttons 2 seem no longer
     to work as expected for IBM Personal Communications/3270, IBM
     Communications Manager/2, Advantis PassPort/2 or EPM.
61.) Does PC/2 also support OS/2 half-packs (OS/2 running on top of
     MS Windows)?
62.) I'm running PC/2 as the WorkPlace Shell process, how can I change PM
     settings (my system configuration), e.g. the PM background color?
63.) Advanced Marking doesn't paste at the correct location sometimes, what
     am I doing wrong?
64.) Are UNC Names supported?
65.) I have multiple partitions with (different versions of) OS/2
66.) I have enabled the feature "Button 2 Border click moves window", but I
     can't move some windows, what am I doing wrong?
67.) PC/2 used to work perfectly, but now it hangs OS/2 when starting!
68.) Can PC/2 help my server to recycle at midnight for example to get rid of
     resource leaks or hanging programs?
69.) When running PC/2 the focus change when closing windows behaves peculiar!
70.) I'm experiencing unexpected hangups/traps now that I've enabled the
     Titlebar Smarticons.

Questions, Answers:

41.) How do I activate and use the PC/2 Spooler Control Window?

     To be able to select the PC/2 Spooler, just add a the PC/2 Spooler via
     the Control Addition dialog to your Popup Menu. Then select the newly
     created item to show the PC/2 Spooler.
     The PC/2 Spooler is a container where you can manipulate the printer
     queues and print jobs of your local machine by pressing mouse button 2
     on any row you want to apply an action. A Popup Menu occurs, which you
     can use to select actions.

     Note that when running PC/2 as the WPS replacement, the PC/2 Spooler
     Control Window is the only way you can control your queues and jobs.
     Even more, without the PC/2 Spooler Control Window, the OS/2 spooler
     would not even be started!

42.) Why does the Overview Window sometimes not correspond to the real Desktop
     application mix?

     The Overview Window does its updating by event triggering.

     This means that an event (creating, destroying, sizing or moving a
     window) is the prerequisite for all windows available on the Desktop to
     get shown on the Overview Window.

     For example, because many events are generated when a Window is created,
     PC/2 ignores all events during working on the first event.
     So when PC/2 is drawing a window on the Overview Window as a result of a
     window creation, and another window is created (but doesn't trigger any
     action by PC/2 because PC/2 is already busy with the previous event) it
     will not be displayed on the Overview Window.

     To compensate for this, PC/2 redraws all windows again, when another
     event is triggered. However, even then, there is a low possibility that
     a window doesn't get recognized by PC/2.

     When the system is idle, no event triggers PC/2 actions and PC/2 is
     therefore idle too.

     PC/2 versions previous to 1.80 took another approach. They always drew
     the windows available, loading the CPU to a permanent 15 % even when
     the system was doing nothing. I am happy to say, this is no longer the
     case.

43.) I have configured a Popup Menu, but always get the Setup dialog when
     clicking on the Desktop.

     To display the configured Popup Menu, the Menu *must* contain the entry
     "Configure Desktop", otherwise, the Setup dialog will be displayed.

     To add the Menuentry "Configure Desktop", select the pushbutton
     "Add Control" from the Setup dialog. Then select "Configure Popup Menu
     Settings" to add the entry "Configure Desktop" to your Popup Menu.
     Now you will get the Popup Menu when clicking mouse button 1 or mouse
     button 3 on the Desktop.

44.) How can I change the default fonts used by PC/2?

     You can change the font of the Popup Menu, the Spooler Window and the
     Overview window by simply dragging a font from the font palette:

     +) to change the Popup Menu's font, drop the font onto the Smarticonbar
        on PC/2's Overview Window
     +) to change the Spooler Window Container's font, drop the font onto the
        container
     +) to change the Overview Window's font, drop the font onto the Overview
        Window (all fonts will be accepted, though some fonts produce not
        exactly the requested result).
     +) to change the SessionBar Window's font, drop the font onto the 
        SessionBar.
     +) to change the QuickSwitch Window's font, activate the QuickSwitch
        window drop the font onto it while it is still displayed. 

45.) What is the addon WPS 2 PC/2 used for?

     WPS 2 PC/2 is a WPS Object, residing in WPS2PC2.DLL. This DLL must reside
     in a directory that is accessible through the LIBPATH environment
     variable in your CONFIG.SYS.

     When WPS 2 PC/2 is installed and registered to the WPS, you can extract
     settings from WPS Program and Folder objects to be used within PC/2's
     Popup Menu.

     To extract the data from WPS Objects, just select the and drag them
     over to WPS 2 PC/2's closed icon on your Desktop, and drop them to let
     WPS 2 PC/2 extract their contents.

     To add extracted WPS Object data to PC/2's Popup Menu, open the
     WPS 2 PC/2 Object and PC/2's Setup dialog, and drag the Status bitmap
     (Full suitcase) from WPS 2 PC/2's window onto the Submenu/Program
     Configuration listbox on PC/2's Setup dialog.

     Menuitems corresponding to the settings of the WPS Objects you extracted
     will be added at the bottom of the current level of the Popup Menu (you
     probably will notice that the listbox gets filled with the top-level
     WPS Objects converted to Popup Menu entries).
     From now on, you can use exactly the same settings of your WPS Objects
     from PC/2's Popup Menu without entering them twice (even DOS settings
     will be extracted).

46.) How can I open WPS Folder Objects from PC/2's Popup Menu?

     Just create a Program Menuitem by selecting Add Program from PC/2's
     Setup dialog. Then drag one WPS Folder Object on PC/2's Program
     Installation dialog (and replace the Program Title field for better
     readability) - that's all.

47.) What is the difference between the "slow" and "fast" version of PC/2.

     With version 1.90, PC/2 slightly changed the way how the Overview window
     is updated.

     Up to version 1.80, PC/2 used to updated the Overview window only on
     the screen, causing some flicker. This approach is called "slow" because
     it gives the best performance for video chipsets, that have a small
     performance of moving data from main memory to video memory (e.g. the
     8514/A adapter because of its IO-mapped design). This version is called
     PC2SLOW.EXE (in PC/2 1.90) and can either be renamed to PC2.EXE or you 
     change the settings of PC/2's WPS Object.

     Beginning with version 1.90, PC/2 defaults to draw most changes of
     the Overview window into memory first, and just copies it onto the
     screen, when the drawing has finished, eliminating most flicker.
     This approach is called "fast" because for modern video chipsets
     (e.g. XGA, S3) there is no performance impact of moving data from
     main memory to video memory. This version requires a slightly more
     memory). Beginning with version 2.00, only the "fast" method is included,
     as this fits best to modern video hardware. Hovever, you can compile PC/2
     if you need the "slow" method.

48.) Why does an installation update of PC/2 not work with active CM/2?

     IBM Communication Manager/2 locks the DLL PC2HOOK.DLL when running,
     therefore you have to stop and shut down CM/2 prior to run an update of
     PC/2.
     This behavior of CM/2 is not expected and I can't explain it -
     but there are potentially more programs out having this behavior. So
     I suggest you shut down or not start applications prior to running an
     installation update of PC/2, if you experience problems installing PC/2.

49.) Why does selection of a tiled background bitmap hang OS/2 Warp 3.0?

     OS/2 WARP has a bug, when requesting display of a tiled background
     bitmap. It even behaves a little different between OS/2 WARP and OS/2
     WARP Fullpack. A defect (PMR 4X472) has been opened against OS/2 WARP,
     so a future CSD (Corrective Service Diskette) will hopefully repair this
     defect.
     This bug is not a PC/2 problem, since selecting a tiled background
     bitmap works correctly under OS/2 2.x.

     During beta tests of OS/2 WARP 3 and 4, I informed OS/2 development a few
     times about this bug (on an IBM internal forum, and via a note), but I
     have not yet heard back yet, in time for the cutoff date of this release.

50.) Do I have to change anything in CONFIG.SYS to run PC/2?

     No, PC/2 is so smart that it can locate all its files (the DLLs, the
     online HLP and configuration files) in the directory PC/2 was started
     from! This also holds true then using PC/2 as the WPS replacement.

     In contrast, many other programs require modifications in your CONFIG.SYS
     or that you copy some files in certain directories.

     Just WPS 2 PC/2 requires its DLL and HLP file in the directory \OS2\DLL
     and \OS2\HELP, because the WPS requires them in a path pointed to by the
     LIBPATH and HELP environment variables. Both files will be copied by the
     installation automatically.

     You may experience an error during startup of PC/2 that the online help
     can't be initialized. Most probably you are simply missing to include the
     current directory (.;) in the path pointed to by the HELP environment
     variable.

51.) I have defined a Hotkey, but now my favorite program doesn't get this
     key!

     When you have defined a Hotkey, PC/2 "sees" that Hotkey when any PM
     window (PM programs, OS/2 and DOS windows) has the focus unless:

     *) you have selected the checkbox "No systemwide Hotkeys" on the Desktop
        dialog notebook - using this option, PC/2 detects Hotkeys only when
        either PC/2, the Window List, or the WPS are the active tasks when
        pressing the Hotkey

     or

     *) the key is captured by OS/2 or a device driver (e.g. CTRL+ESC)

     or

     *) you have launched another program (after PC/2) that also detects keys
        systemwide.

52.) What is referred as an *accelerator* key?

     An accelerator is a special OS/2 PM (Presentation Manager) resource, that,
     when pressed, informs the window having the focus not by the key's ASCII
     character code, but by a special message.

     If a key is not captured by OS/2 (or a device driver) itself, PC/2 will
     "see" that accelerator key instead of an application when a systemwide
     Hotkey is defined for that key within PC/2, unless the SHIFT key is
     pressed simultaneously.

     For example, the EPM editor has defined an accelerator key for ALT+S,
     to invoke its split line function. You can define ALT+S as a systemwide
     Hotkey to launch PMSEEK, then EPM will no longer see this key, unless you
     have pressed the SHIFT key while pressing the Hotkey.

53.) Which sequence is used by PC/2 when autostarting programs?

     PC/2 uses a recursive depth-first search, when searching the Popup Menu
     for applications marked to be autostarted. For example, assume your Popup
     Menu looks like the following graphics (tree view):

                           +----+     Px ... x'th Program Menuentry, not
                        +--| A2 |                 not having autostart flag
                        |  +----+                 set
                        |  | P1 |
                +----+  |  +----+     Sy ... y'th Submenu Menuentry
             +--| A1 |  |  | A3 |
             |  +----+  |  +----+     Az ... z'th Program Menuentry, having
             |  | S2 |--+                         autostart flag set
     +----+  |  +----+     +----+
     | S1 !--+  | S3 |-----| P2 |
     +----+     +----+     +----+
     | A5 |                | P3 |
     +----+     +----+     +----+
     | S4 |-----| P4 |     | A4 |
     +----+     +----+     +----+
                | P5 |
                +----+
                | A6 |
                +----+

     \----/     \----/     \----/
      root      first      second
     level     Submenu    Submenu
                level      level

     Having above Popup Menu, invoking PC/2 would autostart applications in
     the following order:
     A1 --> A2 --> A3 --> A4 --> A5 --> A6

     To define a certain sequence for your applications to autostart, you have
     to position their Menuentries according to above graphics.

54.) Are duplicate Menuentries allowed?

     It is possible to have multiple Menuentries for the same applications,
     but I *strongly* recommend creation of just *one* Menuentry for a single
     application.
     PC/2 currently does *not* support a concept of "shadow Menuentries",
     behaving similar to WPS Shadowobjects.

55.) What's the difference between the Program Title and Window Name?

     The Program Title is the text displayed for an application's Menuentry in
     PC/2's Popup Menu. Some applications (e.g. OS/2 and DOS windows) even use
     this text in their titlebar, but mode applications (e.g. EPM) choose to
     set their titlebar text according to their own preferences.

     The Window Name is the text used by PC/2 to identify one certain PM
     window among all windows on PM. To identify a certain window, PC/2 uses
     the Window Name text and matches it with all windows on PM. A window is
     identified when the Menuentry's Window Name matches either the window's
     titlebar *or* the window's Window List entry. The first window of all
     windows on PM which matches with the Menuentry's Window Name is assumed
     as the window launched by this Menuentry by PC/2.

     If you choose not to fill the Window Name entryfield, PC/2 just copies
     the contents of the Program Title entryfield into Window Name.

     Most easily, just use the Spy notebook page to find out the names of the
     Desktop (WPS) and Window List or any other window you are interested in!

56.) How can I use a Hotkey that starts a program, each time the Hotkey is
     pressed instead of switching to the running instance?

     Just ensure that the program's Window Name entryfield contains a text,
     that never occurs on any other window's titlebar *or* Window List entry
     *or* window class name.

     For example I prefer CTRL+O to start an OS/2 window each time I press
     CTRL+O. I do so by entering the following data for this OS/2 window:
        Program Title:      OS/2 Window
        Window Name:        HK OS/2 Window
     Under the assumption that now other window on PM contains the string
     "HK OS/2 Window", CTRL+O will always start a new OS/2 window, but switch
     to the running one (if none is running, one is started of course).
     However, the Hotkey will not switch to a window names "OS/2 Window",
     because the string "HK OS/2 Window" is no substring of "OS/2 Window".

     Of course, if I for example would invoke EPM "HK OS/2 Window", then my
     OS/2 Window's Window Name "HK OS/2 Window" would be successfully matched
     with this EPM session when pressing CTRL+O, and the Hotkey would switch
     to this EPM session instead of starting another OS/2 window.

     Just ensure that it is very unlikely that any PM window contains the
     Window Name in its titlebar *or* Window List entry *or* window class, to
     start a new instances of the program each time the Hotkey is pressed.

     To find out a window's class name, you may use the Spy notebook page of
     the Desktop Dialog.

57.) Can Mouse Button 3 be used instead of Mouse Button 1 to activate the
     Popup Menu or to switch between Virtual Desktops?

     Yes, you may use the Desktop Configuration dialog to enable the
     activation of the Popup Menu and to switch between Virtual Desktops by
     clicking on surrounding rows or columns for clicking with mouse button 3.

     You may even select that the Popup Menu appears when clicking anywhere
     on the screen. This makes of course only sense when using mouse button 3,
     because mouse button 1 is used by OS/2 applications themselves.

58.) What does "Advanced Marking" mean?

     Advanced Marking is a feature of PC/2, that enables you to mark text,
     copy it to and paste it from the OS/2 keyboard just by mouse clicks.

     Advanced Marking works for entryfields, multiline entryfields, for OS/2
     and DOS windows, E editor, EPM, IBM Personal Communications/3270,
     Advantis PassPort/2, IBM Communications Manager/2, Netscape Navigator/2
     and Lotus Notes windows. 
     When enabling Advanced Marking you will never have to select Mark, Copy 
     or Paste from a DOS or OS/2 window's system menu again!

     To activate Advanced Marking, just mark the text you want to paste into
     OS/2's clipboard by pressing and holding mouse button 1 while selecting
     the text (you may already know this from (multiline)entryfields).
     Release mouse button 1 whenever you have selected the text you want to
     mark and copy into the clipboard. PC/2's Advanced Marking feature will
     automatically paste the selected text into OS/2's clipboard.
     To paste text from the OS/2 clipboard just doubleclick with mouse button
     2 (mouse button 1 is already reserved by OS/2) - that's all.

     If you want to mark text without PC/2 automatically copying into the
     clipboard, just press and hold the ALT key while selecting the text
     (Note: IBM Communications Manager/2 will not allow you to move the mouse
     pointer while pressing a key).

     If you paste text from the OS/2 clipboard into a OS/2 or DOS windowed
     command prompt, trailing \r and/or \n (CRLF) characters are removed in
     order to prevent the immediate execution of the pasted text as a command.
     However, a single \r\n character sequence is added, if you press and hold
     the CTRL key while pasting the text.

     Of course you may use Advanced Marking cooperatively with an application
     that copies text to or pastes text from the OS/2 clipboard (e.g. your
     favourite word processor).

     For 3-button mice, you can select that PC/2 uses mouse button 3 instead 
     of mouse button 2. PC/2 then does not overlay the functionality of
     button 2 assigned by the applications.

     Note: Advanced Marking was tested with the E edtior from 2.10 to Merlin
           (OS/2 WARP V4), EPM 5.51, EPM 6.03a, EPM 6.03b, IBM Personal
           Communications/3270 V4.00, IBM Communications Manager/2 1.11 and
           Advantis PassPort/2 1.31D and 2.1D, NetScape Navigator/2 2.02, 
           Lotus Notes 4.52, other versions may be incompatible.

     Note: You should turn off VIO marking in the System notebook under WARP 4
           when using PC/2's Advanced Marking.

     Note: Though users have requested to make Advanced Marking to optionally
           require a key pressed simultaneously (e.g. CTRL or ALT), I have yet
           found not way for a consistant implementation, as IBM's CM/2 does
           not allow this, and at least CTRL is already used to paste with a
           CRLF added.

     Hint: If you are not sure what and when something gets copied into the 
           OS/2 clipboard, just open the clipboard (e.g. from either its WPS
           Object or CLIPOS2.EXE from the commandline).

59.) If running PC/2 as the WorkPlace Shell process, how can I launch WPS
     Objects or change system settings (as e.g. the background color)?

     When the WPS (PMSHELL.EXE) is not running, PC/2 displays an error message
     when you try to launch WPS objects from PC/2's Popup Menu. As WPS Objects
     are part of PMSHELL.EXE, these objects can't live without running
     PMSHELL.EXE.

     Also if the WPS (PMSHELL.EXE) is not running, you can't change your 
     system settings. To be exact, you still can do this with an INI editor
     and editing OS/2's OS2*.INI files directly, but I would strongly 
     discourage you doing so, unless you really know what you are doing (you
     can easily prevent PM or OS/2 from booting otherwise).

     As a sample, the REXX batch file PMColor.cmd is shipped with PC/2, which
     allows you to set the PM background color that is displayed after the 
     next reboot.

     If you want to launch a WPS Object, and the programs to interface with 
     the system settings are also WPS Objects, while running PC/2 as the 
     WorkPlace Shell process, ensure that PMSHELL.EXE is started before. Just 
     create a Menuentry by locating PMSHELL.EXE which is usually installed on 
     your boot drive [d] at:
        [d]\os2\PmShell.exe
     and launch PMSHELL.EXE from this item before invoking WPS Objects.

     Unfortunately PMSHELL.EXE can't be exited once it is running, so you have
     to find a process killer (e.g. KILLEM.EXE or PSPM2) to force PMSHELL.EXE
     to terminate it when no longer required. Warning! Terminating PMSHELL.EXE
     also terminates all WPS Objects too, and the changes you have made to 
     your system configuration may be lost (keep your system idle for at least
     a few minutes before killing PMSHELL.EXE, as the WPS usually will have
     updated the OS2*.INI files then).

60.) I've activated Advanced Marking, now both mouse buttons 2 seem no longer
     to work as expected for IBM Personal Communications/3270, IBM
     Communications Manager/2, Advantis PassPort/2, EPM, NetScape/2 and Lotus
     Notes!

     This is a restriction when using Advanced Marking. In order to implement
     Advanced Marking, PC/2 changes the functionality of mouse button 2. You
     may either disable Advanced Marking, or you may invoke the functions from
     the menubar (these functions are not used often anyway and are very
     likely also selectable from the menubar).

     For 3-button mice, you can select that PC/2 uses mouse button 3 instead 
     of mouse button 2. PC/2 then does not overlay the functionality of
     button 2 assigned by the applications.

61.) Does PC/2 also support OS/2 half-packs (OS/2 running on top of
     MS Windows)?

     Yes, PC/2 supports OS/2 running on top of MS Windows similar to OS/2
     full-pack (OS/2 including WIN-OS2). For WIN-OS2, the demonstrational
     configuration files assume that WIN-OS2 is used from a path similar to:
        [d]\os2\mdos\winos2
     where [d] is the drive (e.g. C: ) WIN-OS2 was installed into.
     To use PC/2 with MS Windows, replace these references with references
     to the path you installed MS Windows similar to:
        [d]\Windows
     where [d] is the drive (e.g. D: ) MS Window was installed into.

62.) I'm running PC/2 as the WorkPlace Shell process, how can I change PM
     settings (my system configuration), e.g. the PM background color?

     Most PM settings are adjusted through user-friendly dialogs provided
     by the WPS, but these dialogs just hide the low-level interface of the
     OS/2 INI files (OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI), where PM gets its settings
     from.

     As a sample, the REXX batch file PMColor.cmd is shipped with PC/2, which
     allows you to set the PM background color that is displayed after the 
     next reboot.

     To adjust the PM settings you may temporarily invoke the WPS (start
     the executable PMSHELL.EXE), or if you are really sure what you are
     doing, use an INI editor to directly edit OS/2's OS2*.INI files or 
     use small REXX scripts (e.g. like SmallFnt.cmd).

     Unfortunately PMSHELL.EXE can't be exited once it is running, so you have
     to find a process killer (e.g. KILLEM.EXE or PSPM2) to force PMSHELL.EXE
     to terminate it when no longer required. Warning! Terminating PMSHELL.EXE
     also terminates all WPS Objects too, and the changes you have made to 
     your system configuration may be lost (keep your system idle for at least
     a few minutes before killing PMSHELL.EXE, as the WPS usually will have
     updated the OS2*.INI files then).

63.) Advanced Marking doesn't paste at the correct location sometimes, what
     am I doing wrong?

     Advanced Marking manipulates the default processing of mouse messages for
     the applications it supports, however there are limitations that can't be
     removed (e.g. the timely expiration of the message processing).

     Such limitations may cause text pasted to the wrong position when you
     paste by mouse button 2 doubleclicks to a window not having the focus
     (e.g. IBM Communications Manager/2). In this case the text may not got
     pasted to the position you doubleclicked on, but to the position the
     cursor was before the window lost the focus.

     You may either move the focus to this window before pasting into it, or
     you may increase the delay between both mouseclicks of the doubleclick.

64.) Are UNC Names supported?

     Yes, PC/2 supports UNC Names as most programs do, as UNC Name support is
     built into OS/2 natively. For example to launch a program from a OS/2
     LAN Server or from the OS/2 File and Print Client you may enter: (Note:
     Replace [d] with a drive letter, e.g. E: )
        Program Title:      VirusCheck LAN
        Path and Filename:  \\DOMAIN1\Utilities\AntiVirus\AV.exe
        Working Directory:  [d]
        Parameters:         -CheckSum

     Note: The working directory must not be an UNC name (which doesn't work
           for OS/2 command windows either, e.g. you can't enter the command
           CD \\DOMAIN1\Utilities

     You may of course also specify UNC Names in the session's Environment
     Settings, e.g. to allow above sample to load DLLs via UNC Names you may
     set into the Environment:
        ENDLIBPATH=\\DOMAIN\Utilities\AntiVirus\DLL;%ENDLIBPATH%

65.) I have multiple partitions with (different versions of) OS/2
     Installations, what can I do to setup a single installation of PC/2
     that can run OS/2 version dependent applications, e.g. the Multimedia
     Player?

     You can simply use the macro %BOOTDRIVE% (which is not case dependent)
     instead of a fixed drive letter. When launching the session this macro
     gets replaced by d: , where d is the drive letter of the drive you OS/2
     was booted from.

     You can also use the macro %PC2% which gets replace by the fully 
     qualified path PC/2's executable was invoked from.

     For example to run the OS/2 Multimedia Player from the partition OS/2
     booted from you enter:
        Program Title:      MultiMedia Player
        Path and Filename:  %BOOTDRIVE%\MMOS2\MPPM.EXE
        Working Directory:  %BOOTDRIVE%\MMOS2
        Parameters:         -L %BOOTDRIVE%\MMOS2\MOVIES\MACAW.AVI
        IconFile:           %PC2%\MMDemo.ico
     In the Parameters entryfield you may even want to enter the %BOOTDRIVE%
     macro multiple times.

66.) I have enabled the feature "Button 2 Border click moves window", but I
     can't move some windows, what am I doing wrong?

     Most likely you haven't positioned the mouse pointer correctly on the
     border of that window. Just ensure that the mouse pointer is positioned
     on the frame window's border, press and hold mouse button 2 and try drag
     the window to its new position again. Even if a frame window has no
     border at all (e.g. usually for dialog frame windows), you can move that
     window, just imagine that it would have a sizeable border as PC/2 handles
     that window as if it had a sizing border.

67.) PC/2 used to work perfectly, but now it hangs OS/2 when starting!

     There is one known problem when upgrading from OS/2 2.x to OS/2 Warp. If
     you have configured a tiled background bitmap under OS/2 2.x you will
     experience an OS/2 hang when running PC/2 under OS/2 Warp (either by
     upgrading OS/2 or be booting from a different partition) due to an OS/2
     bug.

     To recover from such a hang, you may take one of the following measures:

        *) Delete PC2.INI, before PC/2 launches the next time, for example by
           booting a OS/2 command window. PC2.INI may be hidden and read-only,
           but will be found in the directory the executable PC2.EXE resides.
           Unfortunately you have to reconfigure PC/2's Desktop Configuration
           the next time you launch PC/2.

        *) Rename or delete the bitmap you have configured as the Desktop
           background bitmap of PC/2.

        *) Use an INI editor to remove the entries of PC/2's Desktop
           background bitmap - this is of course the toughest method! Be
           sure you know what you are doing!

68.) Can PC/2 help my server to recycle at midnight for example to get rid of
     resource leaks or hanging programs?

     Yes, PC/2 can reboot your server at a predetermined time automatically
     with the help of the integrated Scheduler. The Scheduler allows you to
     automatically launch Menuentries hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or once
     a year as if you had selected them from the Popup Menu. As Shutdown OS/2
     (beside PowerDown OS/2, Lockup OS/2 and Exit PC/2) is one of the 
     Menucontrols also being supported by the Scheduler, you can configure 
     PC/2 to automatically shut down and reboot OS/2 at midnight.
     Just remember that the clocks in PCs aren't very accurate at all! You
     must also have PC/2 configured that selecting the ShutDown OS/2 Menuentry
     automatically (that is no manual intervention required) shuts down and
     reboots your workstation!

     Note: To reboot OS/2, PC/2 requires the DOS.SYS device driver of OS/2 to
           be installed. Ensure that for OS/2 2.11 the line
           DEVICE=[x]\OS2\DOS.SYS, and for OS/2 WARP the line
           DEVICE=[x]\OS2\BOOT\DOS.SYS is contained in your CONFIG.SYS, where
           [d] is the the drive letter you installed OS/2 at, e.g. E: ).

           This line may only be missing for non standard OS/2 Installations,
           e.g. maintenance partitions created by BOOTOS2.

69.) When running PC/2 the focus change when closing windows behaves peculiar!

     First, most likely you have checked the option "Follow Focus". By 
     unchecking that option, this seamingly random switch between Virtual
     Desktops and/or windows will revert back to normal PM behaviour.

     Second a short explanation of the terminology of OS/2: You surely have
     heard the term "(input) focus". The control having the input focus will
     receive the user input, e.g. if you have a window with 5 entryfields
     controls, your keyboard input will be routed to that single entryfield
     that just has the input focus. Usually the titlebar of the window the
     control having the input focus is in will be marked active - so you can
     call it "focus window".

     Now assume that the focus window gets closed, PM has then to find another
     window becoming the focus window and inside this window a control
     receiving the input focus. PM finds the new focus window by examining the
     Z-Order. The window a user is working with (our focus window) is usually
     on top of Z-Order causing it to cover all other windows. So when this
     window gets destroyed, the new window getting on top of Z-Order will
     become the new focus window (unless it is minimized).

     So what has this to do with PC/2? Well, PC/2 ensures that its QuickSwitch,
     its SessionBar and its Overview (only when having selected "Keep PC/2 on
     Z-order top") window are kept on top of Z-Order when visible - causing to
     cover all other windows. Now when the focus window gets destroyed, one of
     PC/2's windows will become the focus window as it is on top of Z-Order.
     As this is very inconvenient from the usability standpoint, PC/2 ensures
     that its windows stay on top of Z-Order, but tries to refuse becoming the
     focus window passing the input focus on the the next window not part of
     PC/2 (which may also cause a switch to another Virtual Desktop).

     If the window is unfortunately on another Virtual Desktop, OS/2 doesn't 
     care as it doesn't know the concept of Virtual Desktops. OS/2 just 
     activates it, and if it is an e.g. editor, keystrokes will be reflected
     in the loaded file, however you won't see that window unless you switch 
     to the Virtual Desktop it is running inn. PC/2 just helps you by 
     switching to the active window.

     You may find it annoying that PC/2 switches Desktops, but otherwise a 
     window might get the focus you can't see (and PC/2's intension of the
     "Follow Focus" option is to prevent that)!
     
70.) I'm experiencing unexpected hangups/traps now that I've enabled the
     Titlebar Smarticons.

     Adding smarticons to all titlebars is very complicated as there is not
     native support for this in OS/2 (and they way subclassing is implemented
     in OS/2 and Windows too, it's easy to run into troubles), so there will 
     be problems and the only save way to remove them is to disable the 
     Titlebar Smarticons (at least for the failing applications by adding them
     to the exception .

     I know there are problems when having enabled Titlebar Smarticons under
     OS/2 2.x, or when running more than one program that adds smarticons into
     titlebars (e.g. WARP 4 VoiceType Dictation, NPSWPS, XIT,...) or when
     using a PM debugger. Unfortunately I have found no way yet to make this
     feature perfectly stable (mostly due to problems in PC/2 and partly due
     to lack of native OS/2 support for Titlebar Smarticons).

     You can exclude the name of executables, which appear to fail when using
     Titlebar Smarticons, by adding their case sensitive, unqualified 
     executable name without the extension in the Exception List on the page 
     you activated the Titlebar Smarticons. Adding ACS3EINI, VIEW3820, IPMD, 
     ICSDEBUG and NOTES (without the path and extension!) are applications I 
     have experienced problems with.

     Additionally, the Context Help Smarticon does not work very well under
     OS/2 2.x at all, because it behaves differently compared to OS/2 WARP.

     Most easily, just use the Spy notebook page to find out the names of the
     windows you want to add to the Exception List.

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