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Welcome back to "Answers from e-Zine!, your source for answers to all your OS/2 questions! Each month we bring you tips, tricks, questions and answers from our readers and contributors. If you've got a question or tip you would like to share with us, send it in!

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Q -- How do I delete templates? They just won't go away! I'm trying to move them by category into subfolders (for less clutter) which works, only something gets left behind! And it keeps coming back!

A -- Most abstract templates are automatically generated. When you open a folder which the WPS considers a "templates" folder, it queries each registered WPS class that has the "template autopopulate" flag set and creates templates for the class on the fly.

What you need to do is to use a program to look at the WPS class list and deregister the classes for the unwanted templates. Then you can delete the unwanted templates and they'll stay deleted. I use UniMaint for this, but you may be able to find programs that can display/edit the class list on Hobbes.


- Brandon S. Allbery

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Q -- I very often use OS/2 text windows. When I start the session I write "MODE CO80,40" to have more rows. My question is if I can do this automatically?

A -- Sure! Open the Properties / Settings notebook for the "OS/2 Window" object and add the following to the Parameters:

/k "mode co80,40 & rem %"

The "& rem %" is a trick to keep the WPS from passing a folder name to CMD.EXE, which would produce a (harmless) error message.


- Brandon S. Allbery

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Q -- I have been looking into getting a 3D video card for my PC and one of the ones that I have liked is the Intergraph Intense 3D that uses the Rendition chip set. Do you know if there are any OS/2 drivers for this chip set?

A -- There are currently no OS/2 drivers for the Rendition chip set. There are drivers for some other cards though. Matrox, which isn't that good of a 3D card, but is a good 2D card has good OS/2 drivers; anything made by Elsa will be well supported under OS/2, and they now have at least one card with a 3D (S3 I believe) chip set; and the Rage II chip set from ATI works well here.

Before you write in to tell me about your bad luck with any of these cards, let me say that I've either had good experience with each of them or have heard of an overwhelmingly large number of people who have had. Remember, your mileage may vary. Also remember that none of these cards will provide 3D support under OS/2's Presentation Manager right now. There is supposed to be an OpenGL DDK available in the next quarter which will allow hardware accelerated OpenGL though.


- OS/2 e-Zine! Staff

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Q -- How can I find out about OS/2 user groups? What groups are around? Who can I contact?

A -- Well, it just so happens that there are two good lists of OS/2 users groups. One is maintained by IBM and one is maintained by Ryan Dill, a member of the OS/2 e-Zine! staff. The URL's are:

http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/pcug/

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http://www.os2bbs.com/ug/

It's quite likely that your city has such a users group. Even if you can't regularly make their meetings it's probably worth taking the time to visit once and join.


- OS/2 e-Zine! Staff

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Tip -- Have you ever wondered how to stop OS/2's automated registration program from coming up? It's a common annoyance for those with multiple copies of OS/2 installed on their machine or who have had to reinstall -- the dancing elephant just keeps coming back. Few people know that OS/2 Warp 4 actually comes with a portion of an early version of IBM's Feature Install program which is used to install additions to OS/2 from IBM's web page.

If you open \OS2\Install from the WPS you will find an object called "Installed Features". If you open this object from the WPS you will get a list of features that were installed when you installed OS/2. "ART" is the registration program, so you can check the box beside it and click the "uninstall" button, and no more dancing elephant! Enjoy.


- OS/2 e-Zine! Staff

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That's it for this month. If you have a tip or question that you don't see covered here, don't forget to send it in!


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