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From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject: Re: Template Blues...
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:37:27 GMT


I have a different template problem.  I copied (not shadowed) the DOS
Windowed Command Prompt to my desktop, changed it (via the
Settings/General page) to a template.  Cool, no I can tear off DOS
sessions without worrying about whether double-click restores or starts
a new session.  I get a new session by tearing one off, and double-click
always restores.

Problem: tear off the DOS:1 and it's ok, tear of DOS:2 and DOS:2 is
un-deleteable (shredder refuses it, and the template has also become
un-deletable).  Worse, DOS:2 fails to start, with a problem in the
exception handler saying it can't diagnose the exception!

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:09:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.074422.17119@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <unruh.713646010@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>> 
>> I thought that IBM stated that OS2 GA shipped with many video drivers
>> for popular boards.
>> 
>
>It *did*. That's why almost every VGA, XGA, 8514/a video card in creation
>works just fine.

--- Flame thrower on ---

And why 90% of us are pissed off since we own SVGA cards which blow away VGA,
XGA, and 8514/a, but which IBM decided to do an asinine job of supporting.
Everytime someone asks "How do I get drivers for an ET-4000 card" I launch a
long description of all the arcane things I had to do to get mine working; I
should just publish it weekly as an addendum to Tim's FAQ. IBM $%^&ed up on
the SVGA support; don't bother trying to defend them.

--- Flame thrower off ---

Don't get me wrong ... I really like OS/2, and now that I did all the tweaks
to get 1024x768x256 modes in both the WPS and Win-OS2, I am really enjoying
it. But I had to put way too much blood, sweat, and tears into this thing to
get it up to snuff. I almost deleted OS/2 off my hard disk a few weeks ago, I
got so frustrated with it, but I had a brilliant insight :-) just seconds
before hitting the return key which fixed my worst two video problems. But it
shouldn't have to be this hard. And since I am a hacker by heart, who doesn't
mind getting down and dirty when it comes to making my computer sing, what do
normal people do when they find they can't get their SVGA card to work? If IBM
wants to break into and keep the non-corporate, home-user type market, they
have to make it easier for us to set this thing up with our current hardware -
which means they had better improve the SVGA support in the next go-round.

Mike "Grudgingly happy OS/2 user" Ressler
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
Subject: Adaptec 1542b?
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:56:08 MDT

Where can one find one of these cards at a very low price?  I tried over 5
different places and they carry DTC or FutureDomain....but no Adaptec!

Thanks,

-Bob-




Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: Idea for a unique delete?(for lack of a better description)
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:54:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug13.111004.2582@kub.nl>, hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes...
> 
>Just add the DELDIR= line to your CONFIG.SYS (OS/2 install puts it
>there with a REM in front of it). Put the "trashcan" dir in the line,
>e.g.       SET DELDIR=\OS2\TRASH
>You can add some number as well, eg SET DELDIR=\OS2\TRASH,512

The problem with this is that it screws up some mail readers and other
programs that don't delete files the "proper way."  Also, it takes up
space!  I don't want to devote 512K to this.  When I delete a file, I
want it gone (at least until I want to undelete it! :)  As Timothy Sipples
suggested, get the PHOENIX.ZOO program from ftp-os2!  It works GREAT!
The ONLY gripe I have with it is that you need to undelete files to
another drive.  I sure hope there's a 2.0 specific version. 
BTW, it's was the \pub\os2\1.x\diskutils direcotry the last time I 
checked.

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Creative Labs CD ROM Drive
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:41:47 GMT


	Are there any drivers for OS/2 2.0 that will allow me to use the 
Creative Labs CD ROM Drive that came with My SoundBlaster Pro card?

	Do I just set the drivers up via the DOS Box, or are there 32bit
OS/2 drivers for this?

	Thanks.
	Marc 'em.

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From: dg4k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Brian Greenfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PM arrow key problems
Date: 18 Aug 92 07:33:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.oeYFVWi00WBKM2TFMf
	<1992Aug18.134729.28365@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Sophomore, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>>My arrow and edit keys (insert, home, pg up,...) do not work
>>in PM programs. I have no clue why. They work fine in DOS, OS/2 and WIN-OS/2
>>but not in PM apps.
>>My system is a Wang EXEC 386sx with 6megs.
> 
>Have you checked to make sure that any DIP switch or jumper on the
>keyboard itself is switched to "AT" or "PC/AT"?

I have the same problem.  IBM tells me that it is because I have an old
AMI BIOS.  I thought they just recently said the BIOS thing was just a
rumor?  In any case, it seems to me that if OS/2 can see my keyboard
enough to pass the keystrokes on to a DOS window or a VIO window but
cannot see part of it in the PM than it is not a BIOS problem; it is a
bug in OS/2.

Daniel Greenfield
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: 1280x1024x16 colors with os/2!!!
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:47:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <f95mdlr.feustel@netcom.com>, feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes...
>I've seen a 1280x1024 display of the os/2 workplace shell. I want it!
>The display and controller are from IBM!!! The hardware currently
>costs 6000. Ask for The IBM Image Adapter/A w 3 megabytes and the 6091
>color display. This is microchannel hardware.

Actually, I think it's capable for 1600x1280!  Are you sure it costs
6000, I heard it was more like $3000 with 3 megs of VRAM.  I personally
would "settle" for an ATI Graphics Ultra.  

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: lockup
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:20:48 GMT

In article <Bt99By.7op@acsu.buffalo.edu> tjc@acsu.buffalo.edu (Thomas J. Corsalini) writes:
>
>	Last night I grabbed a program template so that I could place Telix
>on my desktop. After I entered /path/filespec I hit the tab key twice and
>entered the working directory(except that I didn't look up to notice I was
>in the parameters line) and close the settings dialog. I clicked on the icon
>and nothing...the only thing moving was the second hand on the clock. 
>	Is there any way to recover when the machine locks? I realize it
>was my fault - I just wonder if there wasn't something else I could do.

Umm, why don't you simply 'migrate' your Telix program?

>        + Internet:     mictom@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu                     +
-- 
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 genius for being led?" -Avon, from Blakes 7                           
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
Subject: HP LJ PostScript in WIN-OS2
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:05:20 GMT

I recently upgraded my LJ IIP with a PostScript cartridge, and lo and behold,
there was no specific Windows driver for this.  I was able to install the
printer OK for the WPS, though.

I finally found the driver HPPSCRPT.ZIP via anonymous ftp at 
ftp.cica.indiana.edu.

I suggest that this support be included in the OS/2 printer drivers.  It
wasn't included in my old Win 3.0 disks, but must have been introduced
after the original Win 3.0 release, since the driver files are from 1991.

The other suggestion is to go into WIN.INI and delete all old printer info
before installing the new driver.  I could not get the new driver to be
recognized until doing so.

Sean Frigo
frigo@src.wisc.edu
Party on, Garth!:  Party on, Wayne!
From: shorrock@mips1.info.uqam.ca (Shorrock*Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: UPDATE : Still can't print through Win-OS/2 :(
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:53:15 GMT
Organization: Universite du Quebec a Montreal

In article <BAB.92Aug11081955@se39.wg2.waii.com> bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
>I can print fine from a DOS window and from OS/2, just not from
>Win-OS/2. My printer is an HP LaserJetIIIP, and I'm using the LaserJet
>driver for OS/2 and HPPCL5A for Win-OS/2.

Brian,
I just got a IIIP myself and had the same problem.  There's a generic (i.e.,
non-PCL5) Laserjet driver for Win-OS/2 available at software.watson.ibm.com 
that works, all be it slowly; it's nowhere near as fast as the HPPCL5A driver
under Windows 3.1, so I've been switching to Windows 3.1 to print out long
jobs.  I hope and pray the September CSD's will have a decent HPPCL5 driver
included.

Glenn Shorrock
Math Dept.
UQAM
shorrock@info.uqam.ca
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where can I buy OS/2 2.0???
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:58:00 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

got mine at Egghead Software.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lxy@zaxxon.dcrl.nd.edu (Limin Yan)
Subject: Re: Link 386 Pro
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:21:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.213431.7371@newshost.unh.edu>, ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
|> >>Is there anyway to get Links 386 Pro to work under OS/2?  It uses the
|> >>Phar Lap DOS extender.  I thought this was supposed to be DPMI
|> >>compliant.
|> >
|> >I have had no problems running Links 386 under OS/2,even with the SoundBlaster.
|> >However,because it is such a processor hog,I usually run it from a DOS dualboot
|> >to get the quickest screen updates. Remember to set the EMS and XMS settings to
|> >max so that it can grab as much available memory as it can.The manual recomends
|> >a minimum of 6 Meg,and after OS/2 has taken it's share I don't think there is
|> >that much left  (out of 8 Meg).
|> >Awesome game, by the way.
|> 
|> 	I could never get it working under OS2 either.  It would start up just
|>    fine, but it would eventually just hang on me after a couple holes. I ended
|>    up reinstalling my system with the boot manager and now play it in the pure
|>    DOS 5.0 partition.  
|> 
|> 							G.Greene
|> 
|> 
|> >Alex Kilpatrick  fkilpatr@afit.af.mil  
|> >"Where the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons." 
|> >---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Me too!

- Lim
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: OS2 won't install, need quick help
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:38:46 GMT

I may have missed a few things or so, but I haven't had time to go
through the manuals thouroughly and won't have for a while. So I
need someone to clear this matter in very few words.
I am trying to install OS/2 2.0 on a 486-33, 17Meg RAM, Seagate ST-1102
harddisk, AMI BIOS, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy, 4*serial, 2*parallel, no-name
IBM clone. It reads the install disk fine, asks for disk 1 and when inserted
complains "disk read error, insert install disk and try again" or something
similar. I tried doing as it says in the readme when not installing on
a MCA-bus machine, but no go. What's up?! Anybody seen this and knows
the answer? Will I be able to ever install OS/2 (then HOW?) or not at all?

Cheers
Erik

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
Subject: Which patches to apply ?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:43:33 GMT

Hello,

pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes, similar as others have written
here before:

>After applying the patches from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I have not had any
>system failures any more, except [etc...]

I have deleted the reference, since I didn't refer to his actual problem.

My question is: I have a new os2 out of the box.
I have applied the kernel patch and all I could find regarding VGA/SVGA.
But I have still some very weird problems.

Is there any list of patches to apply ? Perhaps sorted in
"apply always" and "apply in case of propblem x" ?

I have looked in that faq but didn't find it .

Thanks in advance for any hint!

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: OS/2 DLLs
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:22:37 GMT

I would like to shift some of (actually al but later) my dll files in \os2\dll
to my other drive whih is a HPFS Partition. This is partly to save space
on my (active) FAT partition and also to try to acheive a faster boot.

The problem is that if I move all the files to (d:\os2\dll from
c:\os2\dll) and change the LIBPATH to reflect the new location, the
system will not boot properly because it still expects some of the dll
files to be still on c:\os2\dll!

Is this a bug or a feature ;-).

I could try experimenting of course to find out which dlls are actually
needed in c:\os2\dll and move the rest. But ... very tedious. Is there
any quick way to identify the necessary files?

Thanks.

jin meng
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:45:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug13.200955.27485@news.Hawaii.Edu>, ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes...
> 
>And why 90% of us are pissed off since we own SVGA cards which blow away VGA,
>XGA, and 8514/a, but which IBM decided to do an asinine job of supporting.
>Everytime someone asks "How do I get drivers for an ET-4000 card" I launch a
>long description of all the arcane things I had to do to get mine working; I
>should just publish it weekly as an addendum to Tim's FAQ. IBM $%^&ed up on
>the SVGA support; don't bother trying to defend them.

Fear not, I hear the 32-bit GRE has Tseng 4000 drivers.  I personally think
that chipset makes like S3 are either too lazy or too incompetent to write
drivers and blame IBM, but that's just my opinion.  :)  

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: umbryer@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jeffrey Michael Bryer)
Subject: Choosing new motherboard
Originator: umbryer@spock.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:41:14 GMT

Sorry if this question has been beaten to death but I find myself in
the very exciting postion of being able to get a new computer.
(well actually half a computer:  with the best parts out of my current
one and parts in boxes I'll end up with two computers)

My current processor is a 386SX-16.  This is what I'll be using OS/2 2.0 for:
 
- running Word for Windows v2.0
- using CKermit and m2zmodem
- using the notepad, some OS/2 games
- a few DOS sessions running CompuShow, games (mille bornes, Out of this 
World, etc.)
- I will be multitasking the above

Regardless of the board I will have 8MB of RAM on board (till I can spring
for another 8MB in December or April).

What I would like to know is what kind of performance increase I can expect
with a:
  486DX-25 ISA
  486DX-33 ISA
  486DX-50 ISA
versus a 386DX-33 (as this is the lowest motherboard I will be considering).

What size of cache should I get on the motherboard?

And what about a local bus motherboard?  What advantages will it offer over
its ISA based counterpart?  (I am pretty ignorant about local bus so anything
you can tell me is welcome.)

Other equipement (if relevant):
 Quantum LPS105a hard drive (5MB FAT, 95MB HPFS)
 ATI VGA Wonder XL with 1MB
 Soundblaster v1.5
 SupraModem 2400 MNP

email or post
Thanks
Jeff

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please send..
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:54:40 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <yesePB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben) writes:
>I am in dire need for OS2.H from any source.  Please mail me a copy to 
>mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us.  The source would preferably be from the IBM C 
>compiler - but the GCC version should be adequate.

You realize that OS2.H is no small file.  In fact, it's an entire
subdirectory of #include files that are all #including each other.

FTP the GCC compiler.  Unpack it.  Download the /gcc/os2-include
directory.  Trash the rest.

The IBM headers and the toolkit headers are probably copyright.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:19:39 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil) writes:
>Could someone please explain what core functionality PMSHELL provides;
>i.e. apart from GUIness... ?

It provides the session manager in addition to the GUI.  PMSHELL.EXE
is run twice.  The first time (as PROTSHELL=) installs the
Presentation Manager and the Session Manager.  The second time (as
RUNWORKPLACE=) installs the WPS.

>If one uses CMD.EXE as the primary shell, does one lose such features
>as being able to start the DOS box, and switch between concurrent tasks,
>or is it just that I haven't figured it out yet?

As PROTSHELL=, I believe you lose the ability to switch among
sessions.  I think you can still START other processes and START DOS
sessions, but you'll need some utility program to give the system call
needed to change the foreground session to another session.

>Maybe it is just that CMD.EXE is unnessarily primitive...  It seems to me
>that ina multitasking OS, something as basic and fundamental as
>job control from the CLI should come out-of-the-box and not require
>detailed explorations of internal nuances, and ftp-forays;   procs and killem,
>and the not-yet-extant fgem, bgem, and niceem should have been in the initial
>release.  Or not?

OS/2 really wasn't meant to be run without PM.  There was a text-mode
Session Manager in OS/2 1.0 (accessed via ctrl-esc as before), but it
was eliminated when PM was added for version 1.1.  

If you need the memory that WPS is taking, set the RUNWORKPLACE= line
to CMD.EXE, but don't change the PROTSHELL= line.  This way, you'll
have PM and the Session Manager, and you'll save the memory that WPS
uses.


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From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New software at Watson's
Keywords: OS/2 software, IBM-FTP
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:02:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug18.141010.25528@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser) writes:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have just visited IBM WATSON FTP and I have seen a whole bunch of new software.
>REAL software, not only APARS and fixes but nice programs and bitmaps.
>

I tried  software.watson.ibm.com   and couldn't find anything new.
Are you ftp'ing to a different address?
From: timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu (Tim Buehrer - 625-6829)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Packet drivers in a DOS box in OS2 2.0
Summary: Can one use packet drivers in DOS boxes?
Keywords: packet drivers DOS
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:48:17 GMT
Organization: Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, Cambridge


Is it possible use packet drivers in a DOS box on the same card that one is
using to communicate with a Novell network using the OS2 requestor?  I want to
run some communications programs in a DOS box (Charon gateways, rarp servers,
and some telnetd programs.)  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tim Buehrer
timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu