Re: hodgepodge (ECS info)

["Steve Crutchfield" SCRUTCH@xxxxxxxx]

NBWin runs just fine under eCS. The update programs come as a 32 bit
Windows program - a program that merely unzips the files into a folder
on your hard drive. If you want to apply the updates under eCS, first
run the installer to unzip the basic files under either Win95/8/NT or
using ODIN

As an aside, if you do use NBWin under two different operating
systems, I recommend installing it in two different subdirectories.
The installation program detects whether you are running Win 95/8/NT
or Windows 3.1/Winos2, and installs selected files as appropriate to
the OS you are using. One can fiddle with things to get this one
installation to work under multiple operating systems, but it isn't
particularly pretty and doesn't really work very well.

As another aside, I've found it best to set up my Ibid databases to a
data drive shared by both eCS and Windows (in my case, E:\IBIDEM),
rather than under the directory devoted to Nota Bene
(C:\nbwin\ibidem). That way, I can work with Ibid files from whatever
OS I happen to be using at the time.

Steve Crutchfield

≪< "J. R. Fox"  9/ 3 4:27p ≫>
Morris Krok wrote:

>   Recently mention has been made of an operating system -
Ecomstation. Is
> this available by downloading or does it come in a package.

Not by download. It is developed (up from the OS/2 Warp 4.5 codebase)
and
released by Serenity Systems, whose website can be found at:

http://www.serenity-systems.com

although the actual ordering and fulfillment is handled by Prism
Dataworks:

http://www.prismdataworks.com/

It comes on 2 or 3 CDs, with no printed manual, although there is a
(separate)
manual available for free d/l online, as a .PDF file. I can supply
that URL if
you'd like. That might give you some notion of what you'd be getting
yourself
into.

There are more deluxe packages of ECS available, if one wants
dual-processor
support, entitlement to later releases within a certain time frame, or
enrollment in a Tech. Support program.

I think the initial base price is somewhere in the neighborhood of a
couple
hundred $, unless you are upgrading from a license for OS/2 Warp 4.0.
However,
that could be an introductory price, which may already have ended. As
has been
mentioned here before, this is not a very easy OS to just jump into
cold, with
no background . . . though it is by most accounts substantially easier
to learn
one's way around than is Linux. I would not recommend it to anyone
who happens
to find W95/98 "difficult." It is much more technical than that, at
least for
setup purposes, and the object-oriented GUI is different from the
Windows world.

Additionally, I have no idea if NB-Win is numbered among the Win-32
app.s that
can be run via the add-on ODIN package. My guess is that almost no
one has
requested support for it, so it can't have been much of a priority.
Of course,
Xy4DOS would run exceptionally well, just as it does under earlier
versions of
OS/2. XyWin (a 16-bit Win app.) probably runs much the way it does
under W95/8.

Jordan