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From: cohen@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Ron Cohen)
Subject: DOS Device drivers for Windows 3.0 apps under OS2?  NFS under os2? X11R4?
Keywords: os2, DOS, windows, device drivers
Organization: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:36:26 GMT

I am considering os2, but first I need to know if I will have any
problems using windows applications that require DOS device drivers.
In particular, I am using a Polaroid C-5000 slide recorder that
requires both DOS device drivers and a customized Xenographics
Superprint print spooler within windows.  I have heard about that os2
allows DOS and Windows applications, but will it also support Dos
device drivers in such a situation?  

Also, is network file system (NFS) supported under os2 2.0?  What
about X11R4?  Finally what about network printing to a Unix remote
printer (lpd) as in PC-NFS.

Currently I run DOS 5.0 with PC-NFS and Xvision under Window, but I
have serious memory problems due to the large number of DOS device
drivers I must load to support FAX, slideprinter, etc. as well as the
above.

Should I switch?

  Thanks,

  Ron Cohen
  Geophysical Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: fealon@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Frank Fuchs)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Word Processors (Was: General suite of apps)
Organization: Foxware Systemhaus GmbH
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:04:59 GMT

In article <54423@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Michael Sorensen) writes:
>In <1992Apr13.133534.5486@convex.com> bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros) writes:
>
>>  Does anyone have information on whether Describe or Ami Pro can
>>import/convert MS Word documents?  I have MS Word for DOS (old
>
>Yes, they both can. Ami Pro 2.0 doesn't handle the W4W 2.0 files (thank you,
>MS, for making yet another proprietary file format), but that doesn't seem
>to be an issue for you. Describe is supposed to have up to 3 megs of conversions
>- you can install only what you want/need though (which is nice, I'll never
>import from 1/2 the stuff they gave me in Ami Pro).
>            Tom Sorensen
Just to keep the facts clear:
DeScribe can only handle MS Word NOT WinWord formats (neither 1.1 nor 2.0).
Although DeScribe has lots of conversion available, most of the time I was
rather disappointed by the quality.

-- Frank

-- 
Frank Fuchs, fealon@fealon.stgt.sub.org
Foxware Systemhaus GmbH, Kolumbusstr. 2, 7032 Sindelfingen
phone: 49 7031 875005, fax: 49 7031 83180 (both change in May/June '92)
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: General suite of apps
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:10:30 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <54303@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Michael Sorensen) writes:
>>Greetings, world!  I have recently been reading about Ami Pro for
>>Windows.  Unfortunately (according to the man I spoke with today) there
>>are no plans for an OS/2 version.  Does there exist a similar software
>>package for OS/2, that is comparable to AmiPro?
>Apparently your spokesman isn't in touch with Lotus- Lotus is porting
>Ami Pro, Notes, 123, and cc:Mail to OS/2. Suspected release date? Next year.
>As for other word processors- Describe's 32-bit version (release date is
>sometime this summer) looks REAL nice. I might switch to it from Ami Pro.

I believe DeScribe's 32-bit version is out (or should be by the end of
the month).  Lotus is also a bit more ambitious than your estimates:
1-2-3/G 2.0 and Freelance by this summer, cc:Mail probably this
summer, Notes and AmiPro before the end of the year.  (At least that
is what the Lotus rep. told me.)
-- 
Timothy F. Sipples       Keeper of the OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  List, available via anonymous ftp from
Dept. of Economics       128.123.35.151, directory pub/os2/faq, or via
Univ. of Chicago  60637  netmail from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET.
From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Stacker for OS/2, Yes!
Keywords: Stacker compression
Date: 7 Apr 92 1:6:5 GMT
Distribution: world


The following is a Stac Electronics press release:


             Stac Announces OS/2 Version of Stacker



     Chicago, April 6, 1992 -- Stac Electronics announced today

at COMDEX/Spring '92 that a new version of its award-winning data

compression software is being designed for OS/2* 2.0, IBM's 32-

bit operating system for 386SX PCs and above.

     Stacker for OS/2 will allow users to start their systems

with OS/2 or DOS and access their existing Stacker drives without

any modification while running either operating system.  It will

also be 100% compatible with Stac's line of coprocessor boards

for maximum speed and compression ratios.

     The OS/2 version of Stacker, like the entire Stacker line of

data compression software and coprocessor boards, doubles a

computer's storage capacity with the Stacker LZSTM technology,

which is instantaneous, continuous, and totally transparent to

the user.

     "Stac has received strong demand from its installed base for

an OS/2 version of Stacker," said Gary Clow, Stac's president.

"We have been quietly engaged in developing Stacker for OS/2 for

more than a year now, and this summer we will supply a beta

release to the 300,000 OS/2 2.0 beta testers."

     Clow said Stacker for OS/2 will be available later this year

through Stac OEMs, the company's existing retail channels or

ordered directly from Stac by calling (800) 522-7822.  All

Stacker products come with free technical support.

     Stacker OS/2 will join the Stacker line of products that now

includes Stacker 2.0 software for laptop, notebook and portable

computers, and Stacker AT/16 and Stacker MC/16 compression

coprocessor boards for desktop systems.

     OS/2 2.0 offers true multitasking and will provide the

broadest selections of applications in the industry, running DOS,

Windows and 16- and 32-bit OS/2 applications unchanged, according

to IBM.

     Stac Electronics, based in Carlsbad, California, is the

leading supplier of high-performance data compression software

and silicon.  The company's products, designed for corporate-wide

compression applications, are sold direct from the company and

through traditional retail and OEM sales distribution.

*OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business
Machines Corporation.


----
 _______  Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
////      ZL2AJH    Wellington, New Zealand

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: peterd@tscc2.macarthur.uws.edu.au (Peter Degotardi)
Subject: ibm os/2 lan server - adding > 500 users ?
Organization: University of Western Sydney
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:54:55 GMT

Hi there... 
Does anyone out there in netland run IBM's OS/2 LAN Server (I know there are
some  ;-) )

Of you people who do, do any of you have app's that allow you to add hundreds
of users from the C: prompt ?? Not just adding (I can do that with rexx),
I mean read a text file with a list of users in it, create the users, add
them to groups, create home filesets (if necessary), ASSIGN PRINTERS and
BUILD APPLICATION SELECTORS.

We'd like to give all our students individual logons to the network, but
we have to assume that they won't be able to add applications to their
selector or assign printers to themselves, and there's NO WAY that I am
going to individually setup > 500 userids every 12 months.

Similarly I'd like an app to remove these userid's later.
Any suggestions ?

--
Peter Degotardi        (__)   *  University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
PC Support Programmer  /00\   *  Teaching and Services Computing Centre
Fax    +61 46 26-6937   oo    *  Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia !
Email  p.degotardi@uws.edu.au *  Just in case - 'My opinions are all mine !'
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton)
Subject: dBASE-style thingies under OS/2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:43:33 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


I'm not an applications programmer so I don't know about these sorts of
things.....

Is there an applications/database package compatible (or nearly compatible)
with dBASE or its clones for OS/2 protected mode?
-- 
===========================================
MSDOS on a '386 is a waste of good silicon.
Jon Saxton - jrs@panix.com
From: ian@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Stirling)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 15:08:00 BST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Simple Question (compatable?)
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Laboratories Ltd, Hursley, England
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Apr10.103801.201438@uctvax.uct.ac.za> brdmar10@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
>Will OS/2 2.0 be fully msdos compatible?
>

I think you might ask a little less broad a question.  Of course it is
impossible to say that there is no application lurking somewhere in
some office on Eloff Street that runs OK under MSDOS and fails on OS/2
2.0.

You can however boot real MSDOS in an OS/2 VDM.

Cheers,
Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet
IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com

PS. I know Eloff Street is in Joburg, but I have never been to Cape Town
From: marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: What are "database requesters"?
Date: 10 Apr 1992 07:52:56 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: yoakum.cs.utexas.edu

I work on the remoting facility of the OS/2 ES Database Manager, and
can answer this for you.

Database Manager allows for remote (DOS, Windows 3.0, OS/2 1.3 and 
OS/2 2.0) workstations to load only a small subset of the database 
manager code and act as requesters on a LAN (Token Ring, Ethernet, X.25 ...).
They "request" database services from a database server (much like a 
LAN server). 

If you are running Database Manager on a single standalone workstation
you should ignore this question.

Hope this helps,
Marty
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.apps:1598 comp.os.os2.misc:11650
From: pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Upgrade form (GONE)!
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:39:19 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies



>	I have an upgrade form for OS/2 1.x -> OS/2 2.0.  I have decided
>to upgrade from Windows and canceled my order of OS/2 1.3.  So now IBM
>sent me a form and I would like to pass it on to someone who needs it.  I
>will send it regular mail to you and will pay for the stamp.
>
>	If you are interested email me at 
>
>			pr@umiacs.umd.edu
>

Well I have given away the OS/2 upgrade form.  Sorry.  It was a hot item. :-)
Good luck to everyone who inquired.  

				Jesus M. Rodriguez
				pr@umiacs.umd.edu
From: ignacij@meishan (Ignacy Misztal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: TCP/IP 1.2 newbie, wd8003e
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:42:58 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky) writes:
>BTW, 1.2.1 sports much improved installation - a PM based application which
>updates config.sys, protocol.ini and such for you.
>Also, ifndis.200 present in some interim versions is gone, new ifndis.sys will
>work with 1.x and 2.0 OS/2s. There have been quite a few updates in 1.2.1
>for OS/2 2.0 support.

>Oleg Vishnepolsky

Do all registered users of 1.2 receive the updates to 1.2.1 automatically, or 
should they request a CSD from their IBM representatives?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ignacy Misztal			E-mail: ignacy@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois		Phone: (217) 244-3164
1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Does Describe do...
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:00:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: kuhub.1992Apr10.140015.39215
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I was just curious if Describe for OS/2 handles footnotes and endnotes.
I would also be interested to know if it can create a table of contents
and a table of authorities.  I am a law student and these features are
required for my papers.

I am currently using WordPerfect in a Dos box...I don't have the OS/2
version.  I like the way WordPerfect handles these features.  Just interested
in checking out all the options.  

Also does Describe have an educational discount?

Many thanks.

Mark von Waaden
vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Subject: Re: upgrading from Windows to OS/2 apps
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:15:05 CDT

In article <1992Apr8.034206.19531@news.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
>Stuart Fell writes:
>
>The 32-bit DeScribe demo is
>available now, I understand, so the real thing should be ready to roll as
>soon as they can verify proper operation under GA.

At COMDEX, DeScribe said the product will ship July.  It is complete but
they want to want for the final 32 bit C Set/2 compiler and do one
complete test cycle.
 
BTW, DeScribe had a handout comparing 32 bit DeScribe's performance against
Word for Windows 2.0.  I don't have the handout with me but when I get a 
chance (over the next several days) I'll post it.  I remember one where
WfW 2.0 took the entire chart (eg: 60 second) and 32 bit DeScribe was way
at the bottom (eg: 7 second).
 

During the IBM show of OS/2 2.0, they had several Vice-Presidents, CEOs,
Presidents, etc., talking about the performance improvements OS/2 gives
over Windows and/or DOS.  An example is MCI (from the Press briefing):
Under their old system it took between 20 and 30 seconds get retrieve
a customer's record.  Using OS/2 and its multitasking abilities reduced
this to 7 seconds.
 
An executive told how OS/2 2.0 permitted them to get proposal out quicker
and respond to customers faster.  The bottom line:  OS/2 2.0 provides
a competative advantage over the competition.  Hopefully, they won't go
to OS/2 2.0.

Stac's President (at the Press briefing) pointed out he saw a personal 
example of when to use OS/2 2.0.  The comptroller(sic) was doing the
end-of-the-month books.  He literally was running between machines.  One
machine was doing account recievables, another "x", another "y".  Gary
(the president) said he saw where OS/2 would have let this employee do
everyone of these functions from the same machine.  (Guess who is now using
OS/2 2.0!)
 
Bert Moshier
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David R. Giller)
Subject: Re: WIndows 3.1 Apps don't run under OS/2
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 08:26:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.025356.10884@muddcs.claremont.edu> jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:
>rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>>Well, I hooked up with a Windows 3.1 beta tester and tried to run
>>Windows 3.1 applets under OS/2 2.0 release.  Other Windows programs
>>run beautifully under OS/2 2.0, seamless or standalone.  However,
>>trying to run these applets comes up with "OS/2 does not support this
>>application."  I can't tell whether it's OS/2 or the applet popping up
>>that message.
>
>The message is probably from OS/2.  The Windows 3.1 applets will
>not run under Windows 3.0, so they check to make sure they are
>running under Windows 3.1.  When this check is done under OS/2,
>OS/2 identifies itself as Windows 3.0 and the applets don't work.
>Presumably, Winos2 has the error message modified to mention OS/2
>instead of Windows 3.0.

Unless things have changed that much, it is the application, not the Windows,
That gives that message.  The application checks, and if it doesn't see the
right version, it gives the message (usually 'this version of Windows is
too old...') and quits.

The only other thing I could see is if OS/2 checks when the load-time DLL
resolutions are made, and if the 3.1 OLE DLLs are amoung them, it intervenes
itself.

How to check if you are a Windows app runnin under OS/2?  Dos version 20,
Windows version 3.x.

-Dave

-- 
David Giller, Box 134 | Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light
Occidental College    | bulb?  A: Three.  One to replace the bulb, and two to
1600 Campus Road      | fend off all the Californians trying to share the
Los Angeles, CA 90041 | experience. ---------------------------rafetmad@oxy.edu
Organization: European Academic Research Network
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 11:55:23 GMT
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 Questions!
Distribution: na

>1)      Can I use the Norton Backup for Windows that comes with NDW 2.0?
Yes - but it will not backup the extended attributes. Thus if you apps
that rely on the extended attrib info, they won't be happy when you
restore. The only apps that I know that uses them is the desktop itself.

>2)      Can I use the Norton Anti Virus software on OS/2?
Sure - but viruses have a hard time with OS-2 anyway. OS/2 detects
their attempts to hook, and gives you a warning in many cases. I use
SCAN often to verify everything.

>3)      How do viruses or can they affect OS/2 and HPFS?
If they infect an OS/2 exe (thinking it's a DOS EXE file) OS/2 will not
run that application, but complain about it. HPFS? it depends. OS/2
does not allow direct writing to FAT, and I suspect the same for HPFS,
so some more protection there.

>4)      Does OS/2 support the Sound Blaster?
Yes, I have a SB card, and I use it for every game that supports it under OS/2.
Works great. There is a new fix for VDMA.SYS that makes OS/2 even more
SB compatible. I heard without that fix, the PARROT program was hanging the
system (a friend has a 2 yr old kid, and its her favorite program|)
I haven't run PARROT before or after installing the new VDMA.SYS for beta 304,
so I cant tell.   -turgut
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 17:36:02 WUT
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 Word Processors (Was: General suite of apps)
 <1992Apr12.011030.29668@midway.uchicago.edu>
 <1992Apr13.133534.5486@convex.com>

AmiPro can import *and* export among many other formats, MS-Word in
different flavors. I would think the same to be true for DeScribe.

----rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: fell@sol.UVic.CA (Stuart Fell)
Subject: Stacker and OS/2
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 22:54:55 GMT

Does anyone know if Stacker will support HPFS or will it be restricted to
FAT?  I'm a person with a 105 meg IDE drive who will be pushing it's limits
by the switch to OS/2 and upgrading his W4W to 2.0 and Borland's C++ to V3.

I would be certainly interested in this rather than buying a new hard drive,
which is what I just did back in September when my 42 meg drive was not
sufficient anymore.....
From: pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0  I've got mine!
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:54:26 GMT
Reply-To: pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <1992Apr6.165231.12914@zip.eecs.umich.edu> tazzzzz@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor) writes:
>One question I have though is: has anyone seen a GA copy of OS/2 2.0 yet?
>Are the packages truly going out the door?

>...Kev

I've got a copy.  I bought it from the OS/2 user group yesterday
(7th April) at the "Which Computer Show"

It's a genuine UK copy too!

Paul.
-- 
+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+ Paul Goffin +  Crosfield Electronics Ltd. U.K.  +44 442 230000x3357 +
+             +  My opinions are my OWN. - no one would pay for this! +
+-------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
From: lavog00@DMI.USherb.CA (GUYLAIN LAVOIE)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: 4os2, another bug?
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:41:37 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec

Hi all, I think I have found another bug in 4OS2, if you create
a file beginning with a dot, like   ".toto" then you are not able
to delete it.  You have to delete it with cmd.

Thank's all!
Guylain Lavoie
LAVOG00@terre.DMI.USherb.CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: prs@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Phillip R. Scarr)
Subject: Re: DOS app under OS/2 
Keywords: DOS, OS/2
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:28:56 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.014315.11441@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> froelich@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Bill Froelich) writes:
>I've loaded OS/2 2.0 GA and am now tring to get one of my DOS apps running.
>The app is called Personal Gains and is used with a FM radio receiver.
>The Radio receiver is attached to Com1, my modem is on com2.  Although
>swapping the two around has no affect.  For some reason the program can't 
>recongize the receiver on com1.  It tells me it's setting the baud and then
>it times out i think.  It runs fine under DOS 5.0. No luck under OS/2.
>

Does the program require direct control of the com port?  If so, you may
need to add the name of the program to the IOPL line in your config.sys.
This configuration determines which programs can have direct hardware
contorl (if any) and which cannot.  The danger is that if the program
with hardware control crashes, it can bring the whole system down.

You may need to contact the software developer and prod them for an OS/2
version of the program.

>I have set teh COM hold param to On and HW_Timer on as well neither has any 
>affect on it.
>
>Any suggestions.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Bill Froelich
>  froelich@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

	-Phil
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: backman@vax  (Larry Backman)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP 1.2 newbie, wd8003e
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:51:56

 >> BTW, 1.2.1 sports much improved installation - a PM based application which
 >> updates config.sys, protocol.ini and such for you.
 >> Also, ifndis.200 present in some interim versions is gone, new ifndis.sys will
 >> work with 1.x and 2.0 OS/2s. There have been quite a few updates in 1.2.1
 >> for OS/2 2.0 support.
 >> 
Is it an orderable product or upgrade.  How do I get it :-).....

Larry Backman
FTP Software

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps