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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus 2.01 bug located and cured...
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:41:49 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

I don't know if anybody else has run across this bug or not, but I
found it and a solution:

Since installing the service pack (XR-6055) Procomm plus would cause
problems.  I would launch it from its migrated icon, it would run
fine.  And the next session I launched after quitting PCPLUS would
crash the system.  (everything running, but mouse and keyboard being
ignored).

Well, I found that this problem didn't occur if I launched PCPLUS from
an already-running DOS session.  The settings for the icon and the DOS
session matched, though.  I re-migrated PCPLUS (and all my other DOS
and Windows apps, just to make sure) and replaced the icons with the
newly-migrated ones.  The problem seems to have completely
disappeared.

So, if anyone has problems with OS/2 crashing after exitting DOS
sessions, I suggest you delete your program icons for these apps and
migrate them into WPS a second time.  Apparantly, something in the GA
release (XR-2000) messed up some of the program's EA's or INI
settings, which clobbered XR-6055.  Re-migrating cured everything.


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From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:46:47 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <1992Nov18.192007.17581@husc3.harvard.edu>, gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:
> In article <1992Nov18.172629.10279@mustang.mst6.lanl.gov> carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave Carter) writes:
>>>>>In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
>>>>>>The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
>>>>>>blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
>>>>>>entering text). The area affected seems to be from the left margin to a
>>>>>>bit more than halfway across the screen. Sometimes when I enter text,
>>>>>>each character is displayed briefly and then blacked out; other times
>>>>>>several characters linger briefly and are then all blacked out at once.
>>>>>>This doesn't happen every time I use vi, but it's very frequent. It
>>>>>>usually occurs when I am editing text; if I am appending new text at
>>>>>>the end of a document, everything works smoothly...
>>
>>i have the same problem using emacs.
> 
> This is getting to be a FAQ... The problem has to do with the vt100 using
> tabs to position the cursor. You can either:
> 
> 1) get the latest version of compak2.dll, which fixes the problem (download
> TE/2 again; the new dll was inserted into the TE/2 archive),

Some bugs may be fixed by the new compak2.dll, but not all.  I've been seeing a
problem when I'm in a full screen editor and I'm scrolling up in the text using
the up arrow key.  All the times I've seen it I've been in column 1 towards the
bottom of the screen.  As I start to scroll up, the bottom of the screen blanks
as I'm scrolling up.  The cursor doesn't match the position I'm supposed to be
in either.  Refreshing the screen brings everything back to normal.  And this
isn't a issue with tabs because the file I'm in contains no tabs and actual no
white space except for single spaces between words.

Ken
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From: jm21@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Problems with PM-ANT after TCP/IP CSD 2274
Summary: copy to clipboard misses parts
Keywords: clipboard
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:33:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I just installed the level 2274 CSD for IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1.  When I run the
PM 3270 terminal emulator program PMANT, I'm having problems copying parts 
of the screen to the clipboard.  This was working fine yesterday (before 
installing the CSD).  However, now I only get parts of what I should be 
getting.  The problem is not in the application I'm copying to, because I 
used the clipboard viewer to check it and it is not there.  When using 
the non-PM 3270 emulator (TN3270.EXE), I can do a copy from the window to
the clipboard without any problems.

Anybody know what the problem might be?  Also, would there be a problem with
copying the older PMANT (from CSD 1822) and using it?  After all, this
function worked in it before.

Thanks for any information

Jim Marks

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From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to access HPFS drive after floppy boot ??
Date: 17 Nov 92 07:43:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ringer.1992Nov17.074345.2742
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Nov17.043542.17311@trl.oz.au> smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Steve Madden) writes:
>Hi there,
>	 after receiving and installing TCPIP v1.2 which does not work
>under 2.0, I duly removed it, but not as the manual suggested :-( I then
>tried to instal version 1.2.1, but it does'nt have the ethernet drivers
>on the disc yet, and so I get errors about being unable to find
>macwd.dat or wahtever. I press enter, and one of the TCPIP drivers
>loads, and the machine then hangs. If I boot from a floppy, I can't
>acess my HPFS partition, and so I cant edit my config.sys file to stop
>the TCPIP stuff being loaded. Anyone out there able to tell me what I
>have to do to get at my config.sys ? (if I do a 'dir' after booting from
>floppy, I get "incorrect internal file identifier") Am I destined for a
>complete re-install or is there some way out ??

Boot from your install disk.  Insert disk #1 when prompted.  Press Escape
when prompted.  Insert disk #2 at the command line prompt.  Type
CHKDSK C: /F:3
(use the drive letter where OS/2 is on).  You should now be able to
edit your CONFIG.SYS file.

[I hope you made a backup of the original; if so just
	COPY C:\CONFIG.BAK C:\CONFIG.SYS
Otherwise you need to load an editor to edit your CONFIG.SYS.
Always make a backup copy of your CONFIG.SYS when installing
new drivers since bad drivers (and bad hardware) kill OS/2.]

Timothy F. Sip^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMike Levis
:)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hamilton@eng.umd.edu (Andrew W. Hamilton)
Subject: OS/2, Trident, Seamless, 1024x768
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:31:18 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

OK.  For the last time.  All of us Trident owners would like to
know the answer to one simple question.  Please help if you can.

Has _anyone_ had personal experience getting all four of the following
to work at the _same_ time?  If so, how on earth did you do it?

1.  OS/2 2.0 desktop
2.  Trident SVGA card
3.  Seamless Windows
4.  1024x768 video mode

If anyone has figured this out, I will personally buy you a beer.

Thanks in stupidity,
From: herbert@ECE.Concordia.CA (Herbert Hum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Are there any S3 drivers for OS/2?
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:05:20 GMT
Organization: ECE - Concordia University

Hi, I just installed OS/2 on the weekend and I noticed that there are no
S3-specific drivers.  Does anyone know where I can get one?  Or how I can
use the hi-resolution of the S3 instead of the standard 640x480?

Thanks in advance,

Herbert

PS.  Please email me since our newsreader is a week behind.  Thanks.

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:37514 comp.periphs.printers:3406
From: durby@usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Postscript printing
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:34:06 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Keywords: postscript print

Hello! - I just acquired an HP LaserJet 4 (the vanilla version, with 2 megs of 
RAM, upgradeable to XX megs of RAM, I guess), and wanted to find out how to 
get postscript working on it, what postscript is (in OS/2), etc. I feel like 
I'm in kindergarten here.  I have been using ATM (under windoze and for the 
past five months or so, under WINOS/2 3.0, but can't get it to work under 
WINOS/2 3.1). TIA,
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Orchid PDIIs
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:26:49 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

If you have an Orchid Prodesigner IIs and have successfully gotten OS/2 2.0
with the CSD to run 1024x768 in 70hz, PLEASE mail me a copy of your SVGADATA
file along with a description of your system configuration.  I am running
pefectly in 60hz, but am rather annoyed that I can't get the darn thing into
70hz without all kinds of wacky sync problems.

Thanks a milion

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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Joe's SVGA drivers work well !!
Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:17:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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Even though Joe's svga drivers do not support 256 colors or seamless windows,
I have to say that I've had better luck with them than I've had with the
drivers from trident.


I do have a few complaints/comments:


- if the desk top scroll bars appear, the windows and icons will leave
  'dust' on the desk top.

- when switching to a graphics mode in a windowed dos session, the drivers
  don't always notice the change.  I have to press alt-home twice to wake 
  it up.

- when I try and run a 1024x768x256 color dos session in a window, I get the
  message that I a don't have enough memory to run the session in a window.


Other than that, I have to congratulate Joe on a very good job.


My system-  486/33 8 meg, hpfs, odi drivers, netware requestor, tcpip,
   trident video card with 3.01 bios.
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Floppy B: Being Accessed @ Strange Times w/ Long Timeout?
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:27:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.130901.3430@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>	Floppy B: (a 3.5" high density) is occasionally accessed
>for no apparent reason. When this occurs, it takes over a minute
>for a timeout to occur. Can someone provide a clue on what to
>do to prevent this?

I've noticed this, too.  It seems to happen most commonly when I am in a
"DOS from  Drive A:" shell.

I can't provide any help; I'd bet only Mr. IBM can really fix this.

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From: b645zav@utarlg.uta.edu (Christopher 'Mr OS/2' Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Trivial problem concerning altered text characters
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:20:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: utarlg.15NOV199220202022
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

First of all, let me say that OS/2 is an awesome OS.  However, I have one minor
problem with my text mode (and graphics-simulated text mode) characters.  It
appears as if they have been slightly compresses in the horizontal direction. 
This is most noticable with the letters m and 0.  The middle veritcal stroke in
the letter m is so slender - it is barely visible.  I sometimes can not tell
if it is a n or m...  And the number 0 normally has a 'dot' in the center of it
(to distinguish it from a O), and that _is_ invisible.

Some background/technical info:  This problems has occured only once before. 
That is when I run a GIF viewer called SVGA (for DOS).  When I run and exit
this program, then my characters appear exactly as they do when I run OS/2.  To
return the characters to their normal mode I just "reset" the graphics card by
either sending a ANSI change-mode sequence to the terminal (ie. change mode to
25 lines/page) or by using a chnage video mode program that came with my
graphics card.

My system is a 386/40, 16M memory, 120M HD.  The video card is a basic VGA card
w/ OAK OEM.

If you have any suggestions for restoring my caracters to "normal," I would
appreciate hearing from you!

Thanks,

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From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: how to convert .pcx to .bmp???
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:18:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.TNT.92Nov18081814
Distribution: comp
Organization: Watch the Skies

i have a scanner whose dos software produces .pcx files. i would like to
get them into os2 bmp format. any ideas would be helpful. i have done some
looking around and experimenting and have had no luck. 

i also would like a program to view os2 bitmaps.

thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: More bugs
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:21:39 GMT

In article <mortenk.74.721866775@dhhalden.no> mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
>Here are a couple of more bugs I have experienced with OS/2+CSD :
>[Some omitted.]
>	- OS/2 backup isn't compatible with DOS's restore. Have to use
>	VDM.

Working as designed.  OS/2's BACKUP has to cope with extended
attributes and long filenames, something DOS's BACKUP/RESTORE cannot
deal with.  Hence, when you use BACKUP in an OS/2 session you will not
be creating a DOS RESTORE compatible backup set.

As you discovered, running BACKUP in a DOS session gets around the
"problem," but then, of course, you can't backup long filenames and
extended attributes.

>	- It seems like OS/2 doesn't support 320x240x256c. I have a tennis 
>game where the graphics gets all screwed up when switching back and 
>forth.	

That's correct.  This was never a standard VGA mode, and OS/2 doesn't
know how to virtualize it (yet).  You may see some activity in this
area, however.

>	- I still can't get norwegian characters in full screen dos & os/2.
>Works ok in a VDM.

Do you have the CODEPAGE line in your CONFIG.SYS set properly?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Why can't I Print out the help msgs?
Summary: (Another newbie question, no doubt...)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:04:21 GMT

In the help windows, the [Print] option is always dimmed (inaccessible).

(I do have a printer installed and can print from other applets, e.g.,
Sticky-Pad)

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From: daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ)
Subject: Re: Any Gateway2000 users out there?
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:14:56 GMT

In article <mullins.721927625@convex.convex.com> mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) writes:
>ARG!!!
>
>  I just ordered a new machine from Gateway2000, and as my luck would have
>  it, the very next day I heard a horror story about installing OS/2 on a
>  Gateway machine.
>
>  The machine I ordered is:
>   Model 4DX-33V
>   8MB RAM, 64K Cache
>   Adaptec 1542A SCSI, with a 200MB HD
>   ATI Ultra Pro VESA Local bus, with 1MB VRAM
>  
>  The person who was having the problems was running a 486DX2-66. He thought
>  is was the same motherboard - I am trying to get more information from both
>  him and Gateway on this.  One other difference was he stated the video
>  card was an ATI Ultra Plus - I ordered and ATI Ultra Pro.  Apparently
>  these are two different cards.
>
>  Gateway stated that the machine could run OS/2, and that OS/2 2.0 drivers
>  were supplied with the video card.  One irritation here, Gateway will not
>  let me talk to the tech support folks until I have a "customer number".
>
>  Is anyone else out there running OS/2 on a machine from Gateway's current
>  (apparently new) line of machines?  Is it working O.K?
>
>  Does anyone have the number for ATI?  Maybe they will have more on the card
>  situation.
>
>Thanks,
>Don
>
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>----                      Convex Computer Corporation
>---                         Richardson, Texas (USA)
>--

Don-
  No problem!  I loaded it no problem on a Gateway 2000 4DX2-50, 200MB, 8MB Ram,Same ATI card.  Runs great!!  Really.  Drivers are fine (Although they defined
  a different arrow and wait icon- still functional).  

 The only problem thus far is getting the OS/2 system to connect to the Novell
 Network (3.11).  This is a driver problem which is totally unreleated to the
 (unrelated) Gateway system.

 Enjoy!!!!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Help! Install prob's!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:43:14 GMT

In article <19NOV199221262553@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> makovsky@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (MAKOFSKY,STEVEN) writes:
>Strange thing happened. I went to go and re-install Os2 2.0, and everything
>was fine. BUT, now, everytime I go to open a dos session, it wont let
>me run anything. I keep getting a SYS0002: (I think it was 2), Access
>is denied. But I know that these programs exist, and I havent had any
>problem in the past running them under os2.. HELP!!!!!

Try the CHKDSK /F procedure from an OS/2 floppy boot that is described
in the FAQ List.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: Re: 256 colors in background???
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:11:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.014929.21430@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <BxzCBz.JMC@acsu.buffalo.edu> vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel) writes:
>>>Try the "BGA" screen backgrounds, available via anonymous ftp from
>>>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  If those work, you've got 256 colors.
>>Does anyone know a program that converts from .Gif to BGA in 256 colors???
>
>Galleria might, since it was written for OS/2.  I'll make sure it gets
>to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in due course (if it isn't there already).
>
It might, except that the shareware release is CRIPPLEWARE and doesn't save
jack sh*t.  In it's present incarnation, the program is worth nothing, and
I refuse to pay for something that I am not sure will work.  So I removed
it from my hard drive pending a non-crippled release or a different program.

(I would have uled it to Hobbes for you all, but I had deleted it already...)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: schafer@is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer)
Subject: Oddity in clock Settings
Organization: Rice University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:14:47 GMT

I was playing around changing fonts recently and discovered something strange
with the settings of the clock: If you work with a digital clock, changing the
font of the time in the settings windows actually changes the font of the date
and vice versa.  This appears to happen to me both before and after applying
the Service Pack.  Can someone else verify this for me?

-- 
Richard
From: marcino@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Paul Marcino)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: copyini vs cpyini
Keywords: OS2SYS.INI file size growing
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:31:53 CST
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> 
> While we're on the subject of the massively growing INI file, and
> after apparently ruling out DeskPic as the culprit, is there anyone
> NOT using 4OS2 who suffers from the problem?  (In other words, shall
> 4OS2 be nominated as the culprit?)
> 
 
I had my OS2SYS.INI file grow to 4.25 MB and I do not use 4OS2.


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From: pynq@ellis.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: running MSCDEX in a DOS window
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:16:33 GMT

I am trying to get my CDROM working under OS/2.  However, I am not quite
ready to install it properly under OS/2, so I have been working on
loading the drivers in a DOS window.  Loading the CDROM involves one
DEVICE= in CONFIG.SYS and one TSR (MSCDEX) loaded after booting.

It works fine in a "DOS from drive A" window.  However, when I load it
in a normal DOS window, I get "Incorrect DOS version" when running MSCDEX.
I understand that this is a common problem.  Is there a common solution?

Apparently, the DOS get version call (INT 21, AH=30) indicates
DOS version 20.0.  Would any of the usual "SETVERSION" programs allow
MSCDEX to run?

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