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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: An economical, OS/2-friendly systems vendor?
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:45:06 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan8.091445.14571@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:
>Compaq and IBM will steer you well, but their hardware is relatively
>exhorbitant to begin with anyways.  I need to write ray tracers, so I'm
>not interested in their "value point" systems.
>Oyes, the system: 486DX2/66, 16MB, Nec 4FG, 340 MB HD, Tseng card.  Anyone
>know of anyone who packages things better for under $4000?

Here's what I have from IBM on this.  These are educational prices:

IBM PS/2 Model 77 486DX2 (66/33), Microchannel (four slots available),
8 MB RAM, 212 MB hard drive, SCSI-2 busmastering adapter, XGA-2
busmastering coprocessed adapter, OS/2 2.00.1 preloaded, 2.88 MB 3.5
inch floppy drive, with IBM 9517 seventeen inch Trinitron (.26dp)
monitor (supporting 75 Hz VGA modes, 88 Hz text modes, and 72 Hz
1024x768 noninterlaced, I believe).........................$4052.

Pretty competitive, according to what you've told.

If a 486SLC2 (25/50) processor is enough (performs almost exactly the
same as a 486SX-33), you can get a Model 56 with the exact same specs,
exact same monitor, except 3 open slots (and a maximum of 16 MB RAM),
for $3092.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Re: AHA-1542B, AHA-1542BK, or AHA-1542B+?
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:20:27 GMT

Mike Berger () wrote:
: In article <1992Dec23.134535.19192@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>,
: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) wrote:
: > 
: 
: > Whew, this got longer than I expected.  I would recommend at least 
: > purchasing the KIT.  I have 2 AHA1542B cards and I bought the kit
: > both times (second time to make sure I had the latest drivers).
: > For a first time buyer, I would get the kit, unless you're tight
: > on money (it *is* the holiday season...).
: > 
: The kit includes ASW-1410, the aspi4dos driver, which is very useful,
: the Novell drivers, and OS/2 1.X drivers.  If you don't need the latter
: two, you might be better off purchasing an OEM disk controller board and
: buying ASPI4DOS separately.  All components of the kit are available
: unbundled.

Of course, it wasn't necessary for Jeff to buy the kit the second time to
get updated drivers (not now anyway) since Adaptec has an upgrade program
in place on their BBS. Whether it would be legal to run the ASPI SW on both
at the same time is questionable though.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies ATE   UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
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San Jose, Ca. 95110             Voice: (408)437-5254  FAX: (408)437-5246
From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: *WARNING* SPM/2 Beta Expiration Problem: System Hang
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 10:24:39 CST
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

snodjs@tuckwell.unx.sas.com (Dan Squillace) writes:

> 
> If you have the SPM/2 beta (performance monitor for OS/2) which 
> expired 01Jan93, get any SPM/2 statements out of  CONFIG.SYS before 
> the next time you boot your system.  Otherwise you may hang before 
> the WPS comes up.  
>  
That was quite rude of them.

They could at least let the system come up and prompt the user telling
that the beta period is over and the code is no longer going to work.

Greg

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From: kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass)
Subject: Someone upload diskimages of Beta 2.1 to hobbes
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:23:10 GMT

Would someone please be generous enough to upload the disk images to
hobbes. Many of us dont have a CD ROM drive. The beta is free anyhow and
available to anyone.

   ---Ken

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Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:41914 comp.os.msdos.4dos:44
From: ivarh@mynet.no (Ivar E. Hosteng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.msdos.4dos
Subject: Bug(s) in 4OS2 1.0 and 4OS2 1.1 32 bit
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:37:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.4dos
Organization: Mynet as.


I have fond the following bugs in 4OS2 (both the 16 bit an the 32 bit
version):

If you use the detach command to start a command in the background a
4os2 process follows the detached prosess into detached mode. This
does not happen with cmd.exe. It makes it impoosible to update 4os2
while a detached command exists.

The other bug appears if you have more than ca 1000 files with
descriptions in a directory on a HPFS volume. Typing Dir /z makes the
16 bit version trap with sys3175 message. The 32 bit version gives a
sys0008 message and aborts the command. Doing a dir in the same
catalog with the dos version works fine.

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My opinions are my own and not necessarily shared by my employer.
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:38:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

JM>Just how monitor-dependent is the DMQS file? Do I have to get one
JM>specifically for a Sony CPD1302, or do I just need one for
JM>800x600xhowever-many-colors-it-supports mode? What's _in_ there, anyway?

I have a preliminary copy of an XGA manual that describes the content
of DMQS files, I've been told I can discuss it, and I've written
small "C" programs (the cryptic kind that only the creator could
love) that I've used to look at some DMQS entries, so here goes.

The short answer is that all you need is a DMQS file for some
other monitor that handles the same video modes (defined in terms
of resolution and refresh rates) as your Sony. If you or the programs
you run were *really* picky, you might want to look for one that also
has the same size screen ("I'm sorry, Mr. user, but you appear to have
a 14" monitor, and we have determined that attempting to distinguish
individual pixels in 1024x768 mode would be bad for your long-term
visual health.  This program will shut down in 30 seconds.").
The long answer is below.

A DMQS file contains some basic information about the display
(an ASCII text string which "describes the display in user-friendly
terms", the height and width of the screen in millimeters, whether
it is mono or color, CRT or LCD), and then a number of entries,
each describing a valid video mode.

Each video mode entry describes the horizontal and vertical
resolution of the mode (but *not* the number of colors - that's
an adapter-related issue that analog monitors don't care about),
the pixel width and height of that mode (in millimeters?),
the pixel, line, and frame rate, and some data that decodes into
XGA-specific commands that throw an XGA or XGA-2 adapter into that
particular resolution (there's an entry where the file can specify
that a particular video mode requires an XGA-2 adapter or will run
on an original XGA adapter).

Note that these XGA commands are *not* sufficient to throw an XGA
adapter completely into a particular video mode - they just provide
the resolution-dependent instructions.  Other items, like setting
up the adapter for 2/4/16/245/65526-color mode or deciding whether to
use the 4MB, 1MB, or 64K aperture, are up to the driver program.

It would sure seem to me that a well-written XGA/XGA-2 driver could
run any old oddball resolution a DMQS entry chooses to describe
(maybe a 1024x1024 resolution on a square monitor?), as long as the
driver picks up all of its resolution-dependent information from
that entry.  Then again, maybe that's because I've never had to write
one.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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From: schafer@is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: More 2.1 beta clock quirks
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:03:00 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <1ies75INNrpi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A.
Bell) writes:

|> -Even though there is an option to change the font for the date display 
|> while the clock is analogue, it doesn't change the font.  It always
|> looks like helvetica.
|> -- 

That's probably *not* a beta bug, but just a bug still not yet fixed from the
GA version of 2.0.  You should find that changing the font for the time 
changes the font for the date, and vice versa.  You may have to restart
the clock for the changes to take effect.

-- 
Richard
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Re: Mirror of hobbes
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:53:52 GMT

tmolbach@Lise.Unit.NO (Thomas M|lbach) writes:

>Does anyone know if there is a mirror of hobbes anywhere? (In europe??)

>thoMas

I know of a German mirror, ftp.urz.uni-heidelberg.de .
But don't ask me how frequent they update...

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Subject: Changing the colors of OS/2 window
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:33:24 GMT


hello,

How can I change the colors of an OS/2 command window (CMD.EXE)
from white fonts on balck to black fonts on white?

Is it even possible?

thanks in advance,

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jarmo J. Ahonen
Computing Centre, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O.Box 20,
SF-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. email: Jarmo.Ahonen@lut.fi
From: serls@dashs.denver.co.us (Dave Serls)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2 
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:43:43 GMT
Organization: Sorry Software

A particular peeve:
  I use quite a few windowed os/2 prompts.  It would be nice to have
an option on the system menu, say 'exit', which unconditionally closes
a windowed prompt without the dialog box.  I mean it's CMD.EXE running
there (unless you have one of the alternate commnad processors).
As an even better option or be able to assign the
'close' double-click to this 'exit' function.

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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 with PS/2 56 (9556)
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:03:18 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19

I just got an IBM PS/2 model 56 (clock-doubled 486SLC2) with an IBM PS/2
Adapter/A Ethernet card (I think it is the same as WD card).  I have some
problems...

1.  The pre-loaded OS/2 2.0 was using the INT13 harddisk driver.  I tried
    to use the IBM2SCSI.ADD driver instead but it wouldn't work.  Where
    can I find the appropriate driver for the built in SCSI controller?
    Otherwise I can't use my CD-ROM...

2.  I installed Lan Server 3.0 Requester on the machine.  Works fine
    until you shutdown or reboot.  After reboot I get system configuration
    error (17300 and 16300) at POST.  This clearly has something to do with
    the network, as it only appears if I reboot after logging on to the
    network.

3.  How is the SCSI bus terminated?  If I connect an external device to
    the SCSI port, should that device be terminated or not and should I
    remove something (a terminator) in the machine?

Mikael Wahlgren
From: al919@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bruce Halco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Zero-length files
Date: 8 Jan 1993 14:50:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Determining the space required by a zero-length file:

   1)  Type DIR.  Note reported free space
   2)  Type REM > FOO.BAR
   3)  Type DIR.  Compare free space to that from step 1)

Caveat:  A directory entry takes 32 bytes (I think) of disk
space.  This means that every 2048/32 files requires allocating
another cluster just for the directory itself.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:05:35 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec30.060352.14067@wixer.cactus.org> johnw@wixer.cactus.org (john winthrop) writes:
>a simple well-known "trick" to crash os/2 is to enter debug in a dos
>session, and assemble something like:
>    100   cli
>    101   jmp 100
>It has to do with the fact that most systems don't have a "watchdog
>timer" to sense if interrupts have been disabled for too long.

I believe this has been tried before, and OS/2's DOS boxes won't let
this crash the rest of the OS.  In v86 mode, the 386 chip will only
let such a program mask the VIRTUAL interrupts.  The real interrupts
still get through and OS/2 goes on just fine.

As for OS/2 code, cli is a protected command and can only be executed
from an IOPL segment.  Setting IOPL to something other than YES can
block these programs rather easilly.

As for IBM's protecting themselves, they should just setup their
workstations to remote-boot OS/2 off of a LAN.  They designed LAN
Manager to support this, so they should do it.  Then nobody at a
workstation can affect the configuration of the boot sequence.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (oneel)
Subject: Re: *WARNING* SPM/2 Beta Expiration Problem: System Hang
Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa
	<sBZuwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <19930105210927.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:03:09 GMT

In article <19930105210927.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
   In Article <1993Jan4.224124.2014@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> "ral@athens.cc.bellcore.com ()" says:
   > In article <sBZuwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
   > > snodjs@tuckwell.unx.sas.com (Dan Squillace) writes:

     [Stuff Deleted]

   > This makes me wonder:  Does the OS/2 2.1 BETA have an expiration date
   > after which it stops running or something?
   > 
   > Also, I've heard of two $15 offers and I'm wondering if they're the
   > same thing:  the OS/2 2.1 BETA, and something called a DAP (developers'
   > assistance package).  What's the story?

     [Stuff Deleted]

     My understanding is that the expiration date on the PDK software and
     the 2.1 beta is purely a legal one (no software checking).   IBM
     usually does not make their software stop working when it expires.
     I don't know if the IBM lawyers have some way of knowing, though :-)

     Gene Mangum
     Univ of Michigan Hospitals

Just for grins I tried booting my system last night with the 2.1 beta
with the date set to Jan 4, 1999.  It booted just fine.

bruce

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From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
Subject: Interesting WPS Bug
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 09:01:31 EST
Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
Reply-To: jwh@citi.umich.edu

I've run across an interesting bug in the WPS concerning
files.  Sometimes, for no reason that I can explain, when
I make a copy of a file from the command line, when I view
the directory from the WPS, both the copy of the file and
the original have the same title.  For example, I might have
a file named v.exe and when a copy is made and called v1.exe,
the WPS displays both objects as 'v.exe'.  It seems to only 
do this for files which have EA's attached (I'm using HPFS),
but not all files with EA's behave this way.  Has anyone else
run across this and is there a rational explanation for why
this occurs?  Clearly you shouldn't be able to have two different 
objects with the same title in the same folder.



James W. Howe                  internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
University of Michigan             uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
Ann Arbor, MI   48103-4943         
From: Ed.June@iphase.infoserv.com (Ed June)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.infoserv.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Repost! Elm HELP!
Date: 04 Jan 93  20:01:02 EST

I've tried here once, guess it didn't get out.
I tried also to send to the author of the port from three different systems...

Here goes again:



 Elm's being a severe pain.
 First of all it seems to require a directory of UUCP vs UUPC,
   had to redo that.
 Wasn't too hard to fix, but took a lot of time to find out.
 But now I get errors when trying to send mail.

 I get :

     Error ENOENT encountered trying to write to ?!J?A.

 It's the same ?!J?A. ditty EVERY time.

 Then it says:

     Message sent using dumbmailer mail.

 Then Kendra loads, Kendra says:

     Conflicting options specified

     Usage:  blah, blah, blah...

 Then elm reports:
 
     Mailer returned error status 1


 Bummer! Any suggestions?

 And the reason I'm trying to get Elm to work, is my feed says
   the headers are messed up when using Kendra's Mail.

    Ed June

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: balesej@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eric J Bales)
Subject: Help with 1.x program under 2.0.1
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:48:46 GMT

I'm trying to use Enable version 4.50 under OS/2 2.0, but am having problems.
It is written for 1.x, installs fine, and the dos version works fine under
DOS.  (The DOS version does not, however, work under OS/2)  When I try to
run the OS/2 version, it goes full screen (mildly annoying), brings up the
menu for selecting a profile to use, and crashes shortly after that.  Has
anyone gotten Enable working under OS/2 2.0?  (I'm running 2.0 plus SP with
8 M of RAM and lots of swap space.)

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From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: A very unnerving message
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:06:30 GMT
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 6-Jan-93 A very unnerving
message by Michael J. Saletnik@jade 
> much worse.  I received the message:
>         A defective sector on drive D: has been replaced.
>         No data was lost.
>         You should run CHKDSK soon to restore full performance
>         and to replenish the spare sector area of the volume.
> This was an HPFS disk.

Sounds to me like you've seen HPFS's "Hot Fix" in action.  Here's the
deal: HPFS has the ability to flag sectors of the drive bad, without
reformatting. I'm not sure what else happened in your case, but it
sounds like a sector was deemed "perminately" bad, and therefore will
never ever again be written to, all without formatting.  

Steve


"You can't change the world, just the people in it." - Steve Lacy
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Can I display windowed GIFS?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:37:39 GMT

As part of the maintenance of the BBS I run (Black BAg II BBS - 
a medical BBS 614-621-8240 Call TODAY! ;) I would like to
be able to view GIFS while I'm typing the description of
them while I'm uploading them to my board (from home).

Right now, I have to run VPIC in a full screen session and 
switch back and forth to type in the descriptions.  If I try
to run it in a window I get desktop corruption in a big way.
I tried running switch notification on, but it didn't help.

Can I run such a program in a window?

I'm running a ATI Pro VESA (GW2K 66Vesa) in 8514/a mode.

advTHANKSance

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