By @Macarlo
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 Hi All.
Roman Stangl has released a new public beta for your fine software PC/2 and I just tested it on my Warp 4.5 + FixPak14, OS/2 Client. I'm using PC/2 since the first release on Warp 3.0 and on Warp 4.0. I used it united X-Folder by Ulrich Moeller, united Object Desktop Professional by Stardock and united Control+Alt+Del Commander by Perez Computing Services and encountered not any problem. Finally I tested PC/2 united with these three another desktop tools at the same time without any problem! In a third experience I used these four softs united with the old and good PM Patrol and not any problem was created!

Photo above shows the PC/2 WPS Extract Object near the windowed prompt with @Macarlo's OS/2 version...

PC/2 was recommended to me by the OS/2 Brazilian user Sergio Queiroz, in the OS/2 Brazil User Group Mailing List (GUOS2BR-L) four years ago; I sucked the first release from NetLabs and installed it on my Warp 3.0 quickly and easy. In the photo below you can see the new PC/2 files inside his zip trough my Filestar/2 file manager:

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New PC/2 Beta Released

PC/2 Version 2.10 is Out!

New PC/2 (Beta 2.19a) Tested on Warp 4 FP6

Photo above shows the Install query screen for the new PC/2 displayed on @Macarlo's Warp 4.5 + FP14

 *                                                                             *
*                 PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 2.20 for                 *
*     IBM OS/2 2.x, OS/2 WARP, WARP Srv. SMP, Aurora Presentation Manager     *
*                Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl September, 2000                *
*                                                                             *
*                           Roman_Stangl@at.ibm.com                           *
*             http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/              *
*               http://stangl.vienna.at.ibm.com/ (IBM internal)     

If you are familiar with the LaunchPad for OS/2 Warp, then imagine
PC/2 as a similar program for OS/2 Presentation Manager (but not
requiring the WPS to be running), with much more powerful features.
PC/2 is a WPS enhancement or replacement, that features a program
launcher, Virtual Desktops, Hotkey support, Sliding focus, Advanced
Marking, Dynamic Menu Selection, Environment Spaces, WIN95 key support,
QuickSwitch and SessionBar window, Hardware Panning support, TitleBar
Smarticons, Lockup and Password protection support, Scheduler, WPS
extraction and a Spooler Control Window (which enables spooling even
when running PC/2 as a WPS replacement).

Running PC/2 as the WPS replacement can save about 4 MB precious RAM,
even on well equipped machines you can notice decreased swapper size
and activity giving you a performance boost compared to running the
WPS (due to the much smaller memory requirements compared with the WPS).

For those of you who want to know the "tricks" used in PC/2, the full
source (requires long filename support) is included, however it can be
decrypted only on the 32-bit OS/2 platform to avoid using it on the
Windows platforms. The file to be downloaded is pc2v219e.zip (697KB).

Jump to:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/PC2/DownloadPC2Beta.html

Photo above shows PC/2 window for WPS objects extraction displayed on @Macarlo's Warp 4.5 + FP14

What's new in this release

Fixed that the APM Powerdown/Suspend timer kicks in even if APM support within PC/2 is disabled. Thanks to Lorne Tyndale and Charles Lassiter for the bug reports.
Fixed a possible bug in the VisualAge C++ 3 CSD8 compiler optimizer (using /O option, see Makefile) that caused an optimized PC/2 build to hang during thread startup exception hander registration in Thread.c (since 2.19c).
Fixed to load DosVerifyPidTid() dynamically so that PC/2 will still run under OS/2 2.x (using DosWaitThread()).
Fixed that registration does not file the registration date/version of the current running PC/2 if sending registration E-mail did not work (but a "NULL" registration or the last successful one).
Fixed that PC2NET.C did return an error writing PC2.NET even when there is nothing available to write.
Fixed that during posting Registration information the wrong Url could be displayed in the status window.
Fixed that SessionBar status text was not reset (to the time display) correctly when the pointer was moved from a session's icon directly onto the scroll icons or the Warp button (without prior touching the background).
Fixed that PC/2 sets its current directory to the root of the drive with the highest drive letter, this will prevent that drive from being unmounted. PC/2 now sets its current directory to the root of the boot drive. Thanks to Charles Lasitter for reporting!

Added an option to disable PC/2's QuickSwitch (CTRL+TAB) window, thanks to Andreas Seybold for that suggestion.
Added that if the Overview window is visible during Edge Activation, it is ensured that it will be moved on top of Z-Order.
Added the option to display a customized date/time format in the SessionBar's status area.
Added support of the left WIN key for Hotkeys (you may define similar to the e.g. CTRL+O Hotkey a Left-WIN+O Hotkey). As the WIN keys aren't used too much under OS/2 (actually it's a shame for our industry that MS can force hardware vendors to adopt such nonsense) they're likely free for Hotkey use. Of course, you can still use that key to activate PC/2's Popup Menu too.
Added documentation and code to allow complete testing of Online Automatic Update locally (using IBM's ICS or Lotus Go webservers).
Added a BubbleHelp for PC/2's SessionBar.
Added that PC/2 will not start up at all when pressing and holding the ALT-Key while PC/2 loads. This may be useful to replace parts of PC/2 when PC/2 normally gets started automatically every boot (from STARTUP.CMD or the Startup-Folder) causing some DLLs to be locked even when you close PC/2 (this is possible, working as designed and can't be avoided, e.g. PC2HOOK.DLL very likely will be locked after the first invocation of PC/2).
Added a watchdog mechanism to check new exceptions in PC2.TRP and if new are found the user is requested to contact me (the author).

Changed that WM_NETACCESS now can display a few message boxes (instead of just 1), while still preventing running out of resources due to that limit.
Changed that error message surfaced in PC2NET.C will also show the line number and module information from PC2NET.C.
Changed references (of Roman's IBM workstation) from stangl.austria.ibm.com to the new address stangl.vienna.at.ibm.com.

CONTACT AUTHOR

Roman Stangl
Roman_Stangl@at.ibm.com
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/
or the shorter alias:
http://www.geocities.com/warpguru/

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