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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Plus--what drivers avail?
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Dec23.222759.5841@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
>A question for the ATI-literate out there:  what OS/2 2.0 drivers
>are currently available for the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus and what
>video modes do they run in?

For OS/2 2.0 (without the Service Pak): 640x480-256, 800x600-256, and
1024x768-256, from ATI.  None support "seamless" Win-OS/2 at present.

The ATI Ultra and Vantages series are 8514/A hardware compatible, so
they operate with the stock 8514/A driver in OS/2 2.x.  That provides
1024x768 in 256 colors, and it is the recommended mode of operation at
present for that resolution.  Do not set a refresh rate greater than
72 Hz noninterlaced when operating in this mode.

Those ATI adapters also contain the Wonder chipset, so they will
operate (noncoprocessed) with any VGAWonder drivers that appear.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kl811aa@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE ()
Subject: Bdirectional input of text?
Summary: How to produce hebrew and latin texts together
Keywords: hebrew arabic bidirectional
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:46:50 GMT

Hi,

did anybody succeed to bring e.g. Hebrew and English text into one and
the same document (or even on the same line) in OS/2 2.0 and WINOS? 
I mean, using a hebrew font, going from right to left and a latin font
going into the other direction.

I am aware that there is bidirectional support in a OS/2 text session,
but not in the Presentation Manager. Yet there are these beautiful hebrew
Type 1 fonts out there, which are a  pain to input text in if your cursor
moves into the wrong direction (the same of course with arabic and other
old semitic languages)

This seems to be an odd question (certainly a RAQ). But there must be a
method, I guess, otherwise for what purpose would one create these fonts?

Do you need special s/w for this? Is there a system feature to be installed?
What sort of tricks do professional linguists to overcome these shortcomings?

Grateful for any hint,

Johannes Ehrat
ehrat@lrz-extern.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "James F. Adams" <p00003@psilink.com>
Subject: Soundblaster now works with 2.1 beta!
Organization: None.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:42:14 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.2)

I finally got my non-pro soundblaster to work with the MMPM/2
and OS/2 2.1 beta.  I installed the soundblaster drivers from 
Creative Labs BBS, (408)-428-6660.  Put all the files on a 
diskette and run minstall.  Both WAV and MIDI files now play
correctly!
From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Tape drive suggestions
Date: 1 Jan 93 06:38:24 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

Well, as a late Christmas present, I will be purchasing a tape drive in the
next month.  I am open to suggestions as to what sort of tape drive to use.
My requirements are first that it support HPFS with long filenames, be able
to back up my 120meg hard drive (40% zipped files for a bbs) and have
software that does unattended backups.  I have heard that CMS's software is
not too good and a SCSI drive is out of the question due to cost.  I have
hear alot about backmaster but they are not shipping yet as far as I know.
I  would also like to software to have a command line interface for restoration
from a boot floppy (ie non PM interface) as well as a PM interface.

If I get enough replies, I will attempt to summarize and post what I hear.
Thanks for your time,

--Ronald Van Iwaarden
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 problems
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:55:46 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <BzvtKC.KHz@unix.portal.com> duel@shell.portal.com (Omid M Farr) writes:
> I've been using OS/2 for a couple of months now and I have yet to experience
> a crash, but what I do get are a lot of hard drive errors.
> If a CHKDSK /F would correct them, I wouldnt be too worried -- but it is
> getting annoying to find files missing and OS/2 deleting its own files to the
> point where OS/2 simply wont boot up.  (I end up reinstalling and replacing
> all the lost files)

You must be using FAT, right?

> I recently purchased a new Maxtor HD (and everything works perfectly under DOS)
> But if I install OS/2 and use the Dual Boot, when I come back to OS/2, I find
> allocation errors, files where "access denied" (and these are regular DOS files)
> or files that no longer exist, sector problems, on and on...
> 
> Usually if I correct the hard drive errors, delete all the OS/2 directories,
> and re-install OS/2, everything works great until I try something foolish
> such as using Dual Boot.

Yep, FAT. Have you been compressing your disk or re-orging it while in the DOS
mode? This can stuff OS/2 good and proper.....

> 
> The HD is currently formatted as FAT.  I would like to go to HPFS but I have
> everything in one large partition (660mb or so) and I have heard of problems
> with HPFS & large partitions.  Is that true?  Should I just stick with FAT?
> I'm willing to format to HPFS if that may correct my problems (and dump
> DOS all together)

Dump the DOS. Go HPFS. But do it with the latest version of OS/2 you can get
your hands on. The GA+Service Pak will work fine, though there is a new
UHPFS.DLL for even that combination. 
 
I have been using HPFS since April 27th and have not had any errors or crashes
that I can pin on it. HPFS is pretty robust as a file system. Leave the
auto-chkdsk on in the config when it installs - or make sure that any drives
you add get auto-checked at start-up if required.

> 
> My system:
> AMI 386-33 MKII  The BIOS chips are old (4/90) I guess IBM didnt take into
> account the people that bought 386s < 1991 because the system locks up
> whenever I use CAP LOCKS or NUM LOCKS (I'm planning to upgrade to 486 in a few
> weeks so I'm not too concerned about that)
> Maxtor 8760s hard drive & WD-7000 FASST2 controller -- I will eventually
> replace this controller -- any recommendations on a SCSI controller?
> 8 megs RAM and all that good stuff

SCSI? Get an Adaptec or Future Domain.....these are supported in OS/2 2.1
right out of the box.....along with the IBM SCSI controller.

Steve

-- 
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         | for proportional representation. It
+64 4 478 4714                          | looks like we may get a more  
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       | democratic system "real soon now".
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: abledsoe@feenix.metronet.com (Alton Bledsoe)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:48:43 GMT

In article <1hidjiINN2io@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.093547.29050@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>... mainframes are a long way from being dead.
>
>When/if an effective multithreaded SMP CISC or RISC platform
>is made available in a small package with interfaces for the
>existing IBM mainframe network front ends or lower level com
>gear then mainframes may be arguably dead.
>
>

Could the POWER/4 smp parallel 42 MHz x4 RS/6000 with shared memory
@ 336 MFLOPS be close?  Mostly a number cruncher, granted, but is IBM
working on Futurebus+ or any other IO increasing technology for the
RS/6000 type architecture??
---
abledsoe@feenix.metronet.com
From: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trident drivers and ATI card
Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:20:13 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: jester.usask.ca
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Ignacy Misztal (ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> I am having problems in using the Trident drivers on my ATI card. First,
> I installed tri32new.zip over the vga800 generic driver, and still the old
> vga800 driver popped up. Then I tried tri32.update.exe with DSPINST.
> The WPS screen is fine except that some colors are wrong, but OS/2 full 
> screen does not synchronize. There are no seamless windows, and the
> fullscreen windows paints part of the upper screen in the lower screen.
> The card is ATI OEM with 512k. The system.ini is edited by the install 
> program.

I have a similar setup (OEM ATI VGAWonder XL, 1Mb using generic vga800
driver) but I had no problems switching to the Trident drivers.

I can't exactly remember, but I think the installation instructions for
the generic driver said to place it in a directory "\DISPLAY" and add
this directory to the LIBPATH in CONFIG.SYS (ie. LIBPATH=.;C:\DISPLAY;...).
Did you remove this directory from LIBPATH when you installed the trident
drivers?  If not, that would explain why it used the generic driver instead
of the trident ones.

Does anyone else feel that the fact that those of us with ATI cards must
rely on a _competing_ company (Trident) for OS/2 drivers reflects
EXTREMELY badly on ATI.  According to what I've read here, ATI won't
have 32 bit drivers until 2Q93 (6+ months after almost everyone else!!!)

------------------------------------------------------------
Darryl Friesen            | Department of Computing Services
friesenda@sask.usask.ca   | University of Saskatchewan
------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.graphics
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: XGA-2 cards
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:54:27 GMT

Could someone please email (or post) "official" specs on the XGA-2 cards
currently available or soon-to-be available?  I know IBM sells one for
$349 list, but is it MCA only or ISA?  What else exists?


-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mhunter@ho13.eng.ua.edu (Mark W. Hunter)
Subject: Small gripe about Win-OS/2 seamless
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:19:12 GMT


I was just using a Windows shareware program (Okna Phonebook) in seamless mode
and experienced a minor glitch. I had pulled open a sub-window under the desk-
top and then proceeded to enter some data in another part of the program, which
caused the sub-window to go into the background. When I pulled up the sub-windowagain, it had the title "Seamless Window", instead of the proper title given by
the program. Again, this is a *minor* problem, just wanted to draw attention to
it.

Mark

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 22:14:57 GMT

In article <sheldon.725857031@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>
> I was just glancing thru the README file which came with OS/2 on my new
>computer.  And under the topics of SCSI controllers, it specifically states
>that the Adaptec 1542B will not access drives over 1.0 Gigabyte in size.
>
> So, I'd say that there is some confusion going on here.  Perhaps IBM needs
>to update their Readme file, and Adaptec needs to get this BIOS upgrade
>distributed a little faster.  Or something like that.
>

It is true that the GA only supports 1 Gig. But the GA+SP supports 2 Gig.
I have 1.5 Gig formatted capacity running with an AHA-1542B and old ROM's.

> Now back to the flame fest in progress...
>
>-- 



orville

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: HPFS going mad ?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:27:55 GMT

Hello,

I spend a night or two with installing some crashing display drivers.
Every when booting I used a boot floppy made by the se20boot software.

Now my boot filesystem (HPFS) on harddisk behaves strange:

chkdsk c: /F claims "disk already in use" (SYS0108)
chkdsk c:   finds no errors

check disk from WPS sometimes finds errors, sometimes doesn't
check disk from WPS with "write changes to disk" marked refuses
running, because disk is in use or locked.

I have installed the uhpfs fix, but this doesn't change that problem.

Is this behaviour normal ?
If not, what can I do ?

Thnaks in advance for any Idea!

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr



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  Universitaet Kaiserslautern,  KIT     |  S-Mail:  Postfach 3049
  Tel. 0631/205-3391                    |           D-6750 Kaiserslautern
--------------------------  My personal opinion only    ---------------------
From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do I tell ZOO to do subdirs too?
Keywords: How do I tell ZOO to do subdirs too?
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:14:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Dec22.203511.6041@networx.com> mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
>I want to use ZOO for backup.  
...
>I want to backup all the files in a directory AND all the
>subdirectories below it.
>
>I can't find a switch to do this in the docs.

dir /s /b <directory> | zoo ahI archive.zoo 

>Did I miss it, or is this a deficiency in ZOO's design?

It's a "feechur".

-- 
Mike Van Pelt          | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
mvp@netcom.com         | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
                       | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
                       | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 MIDI drivers for MPU 401?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:01:58 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: gregb@pro-lep.cts.com
Organization: IBM Austin

In <1992Dec17.150524.11859@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
>>It looks like third party efforts have been done, but that's not
>>MMPM/2, granted.
>>
> [stuff deleted]
>Maybe Greg will jump in here with
>his two cents, I know he lurks on the os2 usenet groups.

Yeah, I'm here.  I've talked several times to the folks at IBM, both
here in Austin and in Boca.  I've also talked to Tom White out at
Roland (though not lately).  No one wants to spend money on this.  In
the meantime, between a serious bug in OS/2 that has wiped our
development system several times, and problems with C Set/2, our
development is way behind schedule.  The MIDI scene under OS/2,
especially considering how good it *should* be, is abysmal.  If you
want it, tell IBM, Roland, Music Quest, Voyetra, I'd recommend
starting at the hardware level.  Convincing them to support OS/2\MMPM
is the place to start.  Music Quest does distribute our driver with
their developer's kit, but no one else even seemed interested.

I just returned a DAP questionnaire to IBM telling them how little I
thought of their *Developer's* assistance program (I think it should
be renamed the Marketer's assistance program, personally).  I had
posted a message to their VM support venue, saying I was having
problems thunking down to the 16 bit driver.  After months of trying
to get them to understand what I was talking about, I got a nice note
saying that it looked like I had a thunking problem.

The good news is that '93 will probably see about a hundred percent
increase in my available time for development, and my new business
partner is a little more on the ball, so I'm not doing two jobs at
once.  We'll be officially opening an office in Austin, as well as
Ohio, and adding real phone numbers :-)

I've also been trying to spend some time at least listening to what's
going on with a new group trying to establish some standards for MIDI
software interfaces.  The opinion that I hear most is that the
current various MM specs are inadequate.  We're only to the point of
throwing ideas on the table, so anything from there is some distance
in the future.

Enjoy.
__________________________________________________________
Greg Bryant                                 (512) 795-0323
Delta Music Systems                             Austin, TX
INET: gregb@pro-lep.cts.com
ARPA: wixer!pro-lep!gregb@cs.utexas.edu
Just consulting.   Not an employee.   Not representing IBM
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague)
Subject: OS/2 b2.1 
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 19:41:49 GMT

Could someone please post to ftp-os2 sysins.zip, the file required to
install the OS/2 2.1 beta from CD-ROM when two hard drive controllers
(one SCSI) are present? I don't have easy access to Compuserve.

Thanks in advance.

Keith
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:07:28 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <PuV4VB5w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>From my understanding, the HPFS file system is also 16 bit.  From what I've
>seen there is still a large portion of OS/2 that is 16 bit.  I was under the
>impression is was 100% 32 bit EXCEPT for the graphics engine...  needless to
>say when I learned otherwise I was a bit disillusioned at first. 

Why does this concern you?  As long as I can write 32-bit apps, and
they run sufficiently fast, what the OS is composed of is completely
irrelevant.  The first condition has been satisfied, the second only
barely.

My point being: the kernel could be 100% 16-bit for all I care.  As
long as I can write 32-bit apps, and have them run fast enough for my
purposes. 

>Does anyone have a complete list of what components are 32 bit and what parts
>are 16 bit?

Nope.  BTW, what do you plan on doing with this?  Do you care to write
one of the missing parts and freelance it into IBM or something?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ljensen@netcom.com (Colin Jensen)
Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:55:55 GMT

In article <roelle.725743641@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
>lkawecki@novell.com (Lewis Kawecki) writes:
>>	It would be nice if the use could decide if they want to change windows
>>by just moving moving the cursor (like X) or by clicking the mouse.  The user
>>should also be able to decide if the active window always comes to the fore-
>>ground or if the title bar has to be clicked on to bring a windows to the fore-
>>ground.
>
>Not forgetting of course the X feature of pushing a window to the back
>by clicking the right button.

None of these admittedly nice features are in fact features of X.  What
X has, that PM lacks, is the ability to almost infinitely customize
the user interface behavior with respect to how the user manipulates
windows.  In fact, it is possible to make X behave *exactly* as PM does.

I for one, would like at least a bit of X's versatilty in PM.  For example,
I don't like click-to-type.  [And yes, I'm sure many of you do like it]
It would be nice to make click-to-type, and many other UI properties
*optional* and configurable.

However, I do *not* expect IBM to permit this - and here's why:  If
you let people customize their UI setup, it becomes hard for an experienced
OS/2 user to just walk up to an OS/2 machine and use it - because he
WON'T KNOW which mouse actions will invoke what behavior from PM.

Moreover WPS is already overbloated and slow as it is.  The OS/2 1.3
shell makes WPS look like a snail.  I love the features they have added
(at a cost of speed), but how much speed are we really willing to pay
for the UI?

-- 
Colin Jensen
ljensen@netcom.netcom.com	cjensen@ampex.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: Enormous Desktop!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:14:44 GMT

h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:

>I keep icons that I use frequently on the visible part of the desktop, and
>things that I seldom of never use (Minimized Window Viewer, OS/2 Help, etc.)
>off the left side of the screen.   Consequently, my desktop is about 1.5
>times the screen size, with a scroll bar at the bottom.
> 
>Somehow, my desktop definition has got screwed up so that a few icons are
>far, far to the right (not politically speaking :-)   If I click on the
>arrow part of the scroll bar, the desktop doesn't move that I can tell.
>If I click in the empty part of the scroll bar (to scroll a page), the
>icons move, but the thumb of the scroll bar does not perceptibly move.
>This means that the desktop is absolutely *HUGE*.   I tried looking at
>the .INI files with EDITINI, but it's not obvious to me what to change.
>Any help to bail me out would be greatly appreciated.   I *WILL* start
>backing up my desktop as soon as I have one worth backing up...
> 

Open the desktop settings, hit "arrange", that will bring all your icons back
to the real world. Then hand arrange to taste. Serves six.

                                                [sam]
-- 
Scott A. Moore [SAM]  | "Cash is more 
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Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
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