Feedback from July 29
Yet More PartitionMagic Feedback
The comment in the but... paragraph about inabiliity for PartitionMagic to modify active directories is true but I think somewhat picky.
OS/2 afficionados love the ability of OS/2 to use folders on all kinds of other disks.
We like the ability to pull together lots of different things on our desktops. To expect a program to find and keep track of such things while it is doing something as amazing as resizing or moving partitions without affecting the contents is asking way too much.
I suggest the author investigate the construction of a maintenance partition.
Partition Magic faciltiates the construction of such a partition ( from floppies, if the user only has one partition). The program BOOTOS2, widely available shareware, allows the filling of such a partition with a minimal os/2 system that will allow the use of partition magic. Thus you can safely mess around with your main boot partition magic, and do the occasionally necessary checkdsk d:\ /f which is also not possible to do on the active boot partition.
Maintenance partitions as part of the BootManager menu are a good recommendation for anyone who wants the ability to troubleshoot their system when something (always something, isn't it) goes wrong.
Jochen Dwersteg
No Flames!
Your sound and reasoned editorial about Merlin's hardware appetite is very much appreciated. I was one of the lucky 10,000 to get the Beta, and I've grown weary about all of this moaning and groaning about hardware. I upgraded to a Cyrix 6x86 P150 and added 16 more MB, all for about $600.00 (US). Yes, it's all very cool, but the hardware investment pays off even when I boot Warp Connect. You put it well when you pointed out that this is the price we must pay for more powerful toys: people do not expect to buy new Porsches for $15,000, now do they?
Bill Greuling
Help Desk -- the Cartoon
Just a quick comment/question:
We loved the "Help Desk" cartoon strip, it was starting to rival "Dilbert" for wall-space on our cubes here...
Will it be back soon?
Dave Roberts
- Help Desk has been on a temporary hiatus due to interference in Christopher B. Wright's life from the real world. Rest assured, we here at OS/2 e-Zine! miss it as much as you do and we're constantly harrassing, er, encouraging Chris to fill us in on Alex's exploits.
OS/2 Apps
Tell me about it! I have been stuck in OS limbo waiting for the major developers to come up with some killer Warp applications. Progress appears to be slow at best. Despite the claims that there are tons of OS/2 programs out there, most of the ones I see in Indelable Blue are hard core computer management programs. The word processor market for Warp appears to be shrinking with the loss of Describe and Stardock is the only serious gamemaker around. The best operating system in the world won't make it if a large number of major developers don't make apps for it.
Darin Fennell
- Actually DeScribe is still quite alive and Stardock actually has many games in the pipeline that it is publishing for other companies rather than developing itself. Still, we understand your point and empathize.
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