WPS SETTINGS OUTSIDE THE WPS!!
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If you want to use FileBar as a WPS replacement yet still need access
to DOS settings (to modify performance features, extended memory, etc),
you now can!

Upon execution of an application, FileBar will look in the specified
default directory (as specified in the item data dialog) for that item for a
file named SETTINGS.INI. In this file, you can place settings for the
specified executable.  See the notes at the end of this document for more
instructions on how to do this.  The settings are specified one per line and a 
list of available settings follows:

(NOTE THAT THIS LIST MAY *NOT* BE ALL INCLUSIVE!!  As newer versions of OS/2
 come out, this list may not detail -all- the possible settings that exist.
 At this writing, OS/2 2.1 is the current OS/2 release.  If you there are
 settings that are not listed here, that you believe exist, please try them
 (according to the format below) or use QVDM to grab them.)

AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARING
COM_DIRECT_ACCESS
COM_HOLD
COM_RECEIVE_BUFFER_FLUSH
COM_SELECT
DOS_AUTOEXEC
DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION
DOS_BREAK
DOS_DEVICE
DOS_FCBS
DOS_FCBS_KEEP
DOS_FILES
DOS_HIGH
DOS_LASTDRIVE
DOS_RMSIZE
DOS_SHELL
DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE
DOS_UMB
DOS_VERSION
DPMI_DOS_API
DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT
HW_ROM_TO_RAM
HW_TIMER
IDLE_SECONDS
IDLE_SENSITIVITY
INT_DURING_IO
KBD_ALTHOME_BYPASS
KBD_CTRL_BYPASS
KBD_RATE_LOCK
MEM_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS
PRINT_TIMEOUT
SIO_(group)
VIDEO_8514_XGA_IOTRAP
VIDEO_FASTPASTE
VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION
VIDEO_ONDEMAND_MEMORY
VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION
VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION
VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION
DPMI_NETWORK_BUFF_SIZE
EMS_FRAME_LOCATION
EMS_HIGH_OS_MAP_REGION
EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION
EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT
HW_NOSOUND
VIDEO_WINDOW_REFRESH
WIN_CLIPBOARD
WIN_DDE
XMS_HANDLES
XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT
XMS_MINIMUM_HMA

The above list may not be all-inclusive...  (Also, for users of the STARTD 
program, your initialization files are directly compatable with FileBar.  
Simply copy them to the default directory for an item and rename them
SETTINGS.INI)

Remember that YES and NO responses (which are found in OS/2's setting's
notebook) should actually be encoded using 1 (for yes) and 0 (for no).
So, if you want to set setting XYZ to yes, your settings.ini file must
include the line "XYZ=1" and NOT "XYZ=YES".


QVDM102
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As an aid to help you construct SETTINGS.INI files, you should look into
obtaining the freeware program QVDM102.  It is a program that will take
WPS settings from an object and write them to a file.  The file it writes
contains a [Settings] section that is compatable with FileBar.  If you want
an easy way to make FileBar mimick the functionality of your WPS objects,
grab this free program (QVDM102.ZIP on ftp-os2.cdrom.com and many other
major bulletin boards).

With QVDM, if the settings.ini file it generates does not seem to work,
go through the file and replace all instances of =YES to =1 and =NO to =0.
If it still does not work, you may want to try replacing all occurences 
of =ON to =1 and =OFF to =0.  If that does not work, please see the manual
for more details.

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sample SETTINGS.INI #1
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DOS_RM_SIZE=640
IDLE_SECONDS=60

sample SETTINGS.INI #2
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DOS_RM_SIZE=620
IDLE_SECONDS=0
IDLE_SENSITIVITY=100
HW_TIMER=1                              (1=ON, 0=OFF)