Ahhh... the joys of Tshell. Dump the WPS, dump SOM, dump everything connected
the GUI! That, my friend DeSalvo, is a breath of fresh air!
You know, I used to run TSHELL ALL THE TIME! Speed and small system footprint
like nothing else and all the power of OS/2's multitasking!!!!
>What I don't understand is why the command
>line programs--souper and vsoup--require the pmshell to be running in
>order for them to work. At least I assume that they do, since when I try
>to run either of them under Tshell, both just hang, doing nothing.
>
Hmmm... I just dug out Tshell and altered my config.sys to use it instead of
PmShell. And... SOUP/VSOUP work just fine here. I'm running OS/2 3.0 with FP#31
on a no-name X86 clone. You've got something setup wrong over there. Something
I noticed here, accessing MCI will lockup my mahine like a rock! Ouch!
I'm in the process of getting mail, using Vsoup 1.28. Before that I was running
a JAVA script doing the same. Dialup via INJOY.
>I'd hate to give up Yarn/Souper/Vsoup, but as I don't have the resources
>to run the PMshell under OS/2, it looks as if I might have to forego using
>these programs.
>
I can't say where to start, but poke through your setup a bit more. You'll
find something that's cauing the hang and it won't be soup...
>An explanation as to why pmshell.exe must be loaded for souper/vsoup to
>run would be helpful, so too would suggestions or alternatives that I
>could consider using to fetch mail/news so that I could import them into
>Yarn, which, of course, works fine under Tshell. (Would uqwk be an
>alternative?)
>
What I've found in my experience with Tshell. While you may be running CLI apps,
the code in the apps my be calling functions that are found in the PM*.dlls. If
I recall correctly, BinkleyTerm for OS/2 did just that. If you stripped douwn
an os/2 installation for running CLI only, you still had to leave a few PM*.dll
in OS2/DLL for all of them to run correctly.
>Thanks in advance for considering this message and for responding.
>
Mr. DeSalvo, you happen to have java over there on your machine? I've got a
couple of java applications looking for beta testers... <G>
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