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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:59:49 PDT
From: "Don Burch" <hurin@home.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Det Desktop

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In <199908232126.4611648.7@sundialsystems.com>, on 08/23/99
at 09:26 PM, scm@nectar.com.au said:

>On booting a warp 3 connect system w/fp 36
>I get 'Unable to find desktop in INI file'.

>If I force the loading of this \Desktop with
>a SET DESKTOP= statement, I get many missing objects
>including the taskbar. Looking at the desktop
>within a OS/2 window I see what appears (without
>actually verifying the EA's) to be a valid and complete
>directory structure.

Is this set statement OK to use in Warp 3? John Angelico recent info on
the POSSI discussion suggests that it was recommended in the pre fix pack
days of Warp 4, to help stabilize the desktop - in particular the
WarpCenter.

See following:

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:08:02 -0400, Chuck McKinnis
wrote:

>
>Where in the world did you find this little gem.
>
Oy - but to remember? Came from the thriving milieu of OS/2 fanaticism in
early Warp 4 days before FP1. A lot of people were having trouble with
WarpCenter, Desktop and similar stability probs.

>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:23:09 +1100 (EDT), John Angelico wrote:
>
>>I found that these sorts of stability problems disappeared when I put
>>SET Desktop=C:\Desktop
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>>(case sensitive)
>>
>>into my CONFIG.SYS
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Best regards
>>John Angelico
>>OS/2 SIG
>>Melbourne PC User Group Inc.
>>Email: talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>

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Don Burch
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
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