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Re: Warp4 on a 701 (was: NT on 750)
>If he was running Warp4 he must be accustomed to sluggishness. I
>installed it on one of the two hard drives for my 701 (DX4/75, 24mb) and
>find it to be very slow compared to Win95, which runs quite well on the
I run Warp 4 on my desktop (P133, 40MB, 1GB) where it runs happily, but Warp
Connect on my TP 755cx (P75, 16MB, 540MB (shared with Linux) on which it runs fine,
though noticably slower. And that's the way I intend to leave it - Warp 4 does seem to
need more recources than Warp 3 (I had 16MB on my desktop before I upgraded to
32MB and then 40MB. The performace gain of this last step I found barely noticeable,
I was simply using up a redundant SIMM that a colleague couldn't use, but the first
made a huge difference!).
>Though I like some things about Warp4, I'm baffled as to why there is no
>feature for file management, like File Manager/Explorer on the Windows
>system. This omission alone makes it almost too tedious to use. I assume
>there are OS/2 file manager programs one can buy.
Not being that familiar with Windows systems I'm not quite sure how the OS/2 Drives
function differs from the Win95 Explorer. You have drag and drop file moving, copying,
deleting and creating shadows (similar to the Win95 shortcut) as well as access to
object properties, editing text files, running programmes, etc. Mind you, having said
that, and having cut my teeth in the days of DOS on an XT I'm still not entirely
comfortable with the object oriented concept and mainly use File Commander/2, a
shareware equivalent of Norton Commander, for file handling.
Geoff
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Dr G P Hogan
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