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Mark– >>Maybe there is still something you can do to "tune" transfer rate. I hope so. I have messages on the OS/2 fora and should be getting a response soon. >>I knew OS/2 had been around a little while but I thought many had not taken it very seriously until the latest release. Not even MicroSoft took OS/2 seriously once Windows started selling. Of course, MicroSoft LAN Manager only runs under OS/2, so that's why they won't upgrade it and are pushing Win NT. >>The guy who does my system programming uses OS/2 for his development machines exclusively and would not use Windows if you threatened him with a gun. Neither would I. I was doing some C development under Win/DOS and locked up the PC big time half a dozen times a day. The only way I could get everything going again was to hit the reset switch. C-A-D did nothing. Under OS/2, I hit Ctrl-Esc, terminated the task from the task list, and opened up a new DOS box. OS/2 is a lot more usable than DOS. Faster too. Some people have run very long dBase update jobs (10+ hrs) under OS/2 and have cut the run time in half (your mileage may vary). The improvement is because the code for the FAT file system has all been rewritten as 32-bit code. IBM is right when they say OS/2 is a better DOS than DOS. It's not quite a better Windows than Windows, but it will run multiple Windows programs, each in its own window and keep them from clobbering each other. One nice thing you can do is set up multiple virtual DOS machines (VDMs), each with its own AUTOEXEC.BAT. You could also have one VDM for each of the DOS programs you use each day and switch back and forth among them with the Alt-Esc combination, or have multiple DOS windows open on the desktop and jump between them either with the mouse or Alt-Tab and resize them to full screen and back with the Alt-Home combination. [continued in the reply]