Then there was praxim for windows 3.1. It had some nifty features not seen in other apps. For example, a 'dir' produced a directory, but the documents and exe files were actually hot-linked to the documents in question. Clicking on 'mydoc.bmp' actually opened the document.
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http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=176089#p176089 the second picture.
This is a custom hack of Windows 3.11, running an external program PRAXIM. all of the windows that one sees belongs to praxim, the other apps are minimised behind the bottom left. There are several tool-boxes open, each loaded with applications that Praxim thought would be handy (they're based on app-size actually, and the Windows 3.x groups). Windoze (the group at the bottom left), and WinOS2 (the highlighted group), are default groups in the patched windows, (they're seen in earlier posts aw well). Favorite progs (top right), is based on what Praxim thought would be nifty.
Bottom right is a "browser", a glorified 'file open' dialog.
Across the top, we see a long thin window titled 'Praxim - K:\walls\1994'. This is a command line. The (info) button on the command line brings up quick-help (in a window), of the command at the prompt. It has a link on that menu to the full help in praxim.hlp. It's sort of like the F1 key in 4nt etc.
The command just issued is 'dir' in that directory. This brought up the directory-in-a-window seen top left. It's a list of of the multi-page wallpapers, specifically from OS/2 2.x to 4.x, rendered for use in Windows. One sees that 'orchids.bmp' is highlighted.
This is because it had just been clicked by a mouse. The act of clicking it opened the document, which in this case, fed it to a program that sets it as wallpaper. That program is also part of the Windows hack. You can see its icon sitting in control panel, in the third post (just above the MS-DOS 6.30 window). Yes, that is MS-DOS 6.30, a patched 6.22, that had all of the 6.22 bits changed to 6.30, even in the binary form (ie 4dos would say it's running under MS-DOS 6.30, because it reads that information from a setting made by IO.SYS).
I actually used that copy of Windows for many years, well past 1995. '7654' is a code for 1996/august/15. I used windows 3.1 and DOS and OS2 until about 2002 (when the 486 died). Apparently 7654 was an incremental build as well, so it's older still.
I bought praxim while waiting for take command/16 and take command/32 1.0 to arrive in the mail.