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From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: HELP: Need a CD-ROM player.
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:03:29 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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Hi all,
I just joined IBM's DAP, and have ordered the PDK CD-ROM.  I need to
find a good, inexpensive player.  My machine does not currently have
SCSI, and I think that would be expensive; I've got IDE right now.
(It's an ISA 486/33.)

I've seen a player in the Damark catalog, which comes with several
CD-ROM titles, for about $200.  The name wasn't printed, as far as
I could see; does anyone know if that player will work with OS/2?
(It comes with its own interface card...)

The titles aren't >really< important; if I can find a good player
for, say, $300ish, I can do without the "extras" (I really only
want it so I can write some code for OS/2, not to play around
with).

If you could email your responses (along with posting them if you
feel others would be interested), I'd greatly appreciate it -- I'm
in training all week, and as my .sig shows, any response will be
gone in a day.    Thanks!  :-)

(Oh, also, use the address below to save headaches -- if you just R)eply,
it'll go to "kbeal@amber" which obviously won't work.  I'm looking into
fixing that....  all in good time :-)  ).
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From: brokow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Brokowski)
Subject: HELP!  Floppy trouble
Summary: system won't reread directory when floppy changed
Keywords: floppy drive, cache problem (?)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:15:51 GMT

Howdy,

For some reason,the system doesn't re-read the directory of 
my B: drive (5.25 in) when I switch floppies.  This happened
when I was recently trying to install a program and it wouldn't
recognize the disk I put in when it asked "Insert disk #2 in
drive B: and press Enter."  There is no problem (that I know 
of) with the 1.44MB floppy drive.

Is there some CONFIG.SYS setting I can play with to fix this?
I recall that, in old evil DOS, there was a DRVPARM setting 
that I might try fooling with, but I don't see that in OS/2.
My CONFIG.SYS already contains the
	BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD 
line.  Could this be a problem with one of the caches that OS/2 
sets up?

Any help with this would be appreciated.  You can imagine what
a pain it is not to be able to install any software that comes
on 5.25" drives.  Even copying to 3.5" floppies requires a 
reboot between each disk.


  - Mike Brokowski
    brokowski@nwu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jgleiszb@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Joerg Gleiszberg)
Subject: AVGA2 video driver for OS/2 2.0 wanted
Keywords: OS2 AVGA2
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:20:34 GMT

Who has got ( or knows where to find ) a driver for OS/2 2.0 for the 
AVGA2 videocard ( VESA compatible ?? ) ?  Or: Can I use the driver for
this card for OS/2 1.2 ?
Answers please to  Joerg.Gleiszberg@Mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Thanks in advance. 
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From: horsten@duttncb.tn.tudelft.nl (R.C. Horsten)
Subject: c: and d: drive ??????? using os2 2.1b
Originator: horsten@duttncb.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Technical University Delft
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:39:54 GMT


The problem is as follows, after deleting OS2 2.0 completely from disk but
leaving DOS with all the DOS programs on disk I compressed the disk with
norton speedisk and cleared all the free space. So making sure all traces
of OS2 2.0 are removed. Then I installed the OS2 2.1 beta. This is going
fine up to the point of migration. In the migrate menu during installation
two hard disks appear, drive C: and D:. I have only got one and not 
partitioned.
Selecting drive C: and migrating all necessary programs the OS2 installation
continues. When the complete OS2 2.1b is installed and running I chose the
DOS full screen icon switching to DOS. Also here I have drive C: and D:.
Trying to run a program in the DOS session gives me an SYS0005 access is
denied warning. The same for the D: drive. Running chkdsk in the DOS session
gives an giant list with the following warnings :
 
 "DOS program name" attempted to claim an extended attribute that does not
  exist.

  and

  SYS1324 "DOS program name" is cross linked on extended attribute #

Chkdsk on the OS2 command line gives the same warnings.
Clicking the drives icon, I see four drives A:, B:, C: and D:. Trying to
open drive C: or drive D: gives error warning SYS0278 The system cannot
find the extended attribute.
Using dual boot and going back to DOS, chkdsk gives no warnings or errors
I tried the set diskettes on a other almost identical machine and it works fine.OS2, windows 3.1 and even the high resolution graphics modes are running 
without any problems.

The system on which the OS2 2.1b is installed has the following configuration
 486-33 clone
 8Mb RAM 256K cache
 100Mb HD FAT partioned as C: and only C: (!!!)
 Tseng ET-4000 1Mb
 AMI bios

 Please help.

 Roland Horsten
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:30:31 GMT

In article <1jlnsgINN4lc@psun2.hmi.de> pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>>>So, is there somewhere an OS/2 program that allows access to the
>>>Win cardfile data files?
>>Is it at all convenient to convert over?  There's a PM Cardfile
>>available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but I assume you
>>have to cut and paste.
>Tim! Cut and paste some 500 cards...?

I didn't say it would be easy.  :-)

Anyway, I'm glad you found a solution which is less painful.

Also, Win-OS/2 3.1 does come with Windows Cardfile, I believe.

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From: Dan_Smith@mindlink.bc.ca (Dan Smith)
Subject: No way to install OS/2 w/o Bootmanager together with DOS & 3
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:23:38 GMT

It sure seems to be impossible.  I have been having problems installing it
even with the dual boot.  For something even more difficult try installing
DOS on a system that only has OS2.  Next to impossible.
From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Adaptec 1540A, B, C (was Re: Yet another Texel question)
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:32:03 GMT
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science

In article <1k6jtf$afr@agate.berkeley.edu> drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu (Derek Suzuki) writes:
>
>	The SCSI adapter I'm planning to use is an Adaptec 1540A. 
>I'm told this lacks some features of the newer model.  Would it still
>be usable for a CD-ROM and/or a tape drive?

It should be, but I can't guarantee it, as I use the 154X B.  Can anyone
comment on the new C revision?  (Maybe we should post this to comp.sys.pc.
hardware...I know John Lloyd from adaptec pokes his nose around in here.
Hopefully he'll give the definitive answer.

Jeff




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From: b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL)
Subject: Re: AutoCAD and OS/2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:18:00 GMT

In article <1jp4t5INNve@uwm.edu>, tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes...
>From article <81320@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gb8@prism.gatech.EDU (BEEBE,GARY E):
>> I gotta guy pinging me for info on the effective usibility of AutoCAD (ver
>> 10 or higher) on OS/2 2.0. If anyone can tell me anything about the       
>> compatibility and usibility issues involved I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
>There is an OS/2 version of AutoCAD at the release 10 level (the charge
>is nominal to 'upgrade' from the DOS version to the OS/2 version).
>As far I know, Release 11 will not run under OS/2 2.0, however, a
>patch released by AutoCAD for Release 12 will allow you to run it
>under OS/2 2.0 just fine.

You can  also run the standard version of v10 perfectly well as a full screen
 DOS session. We have been doing this routinely for several months-- we've
ordered the v12 upgrade but delvery is slooooww.
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New user to OS/2:  How do I associate data objects to programs?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:08:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <1993Jan26.204026.10268@a.cs.okstate.edu> munn@a.cs.okstate.edu (Thomas J. Munn) writes:
>I want to be able to associate all .doc extentions with my word processor
>wpwin, also I want to associate all .tbk extentions with a toolbook program
>that won't run without a toolbook specified.

Go to the settings view of the object for the APPLICATION and add the *.doc 
(or whatever) extension to the ASSOCIATIONS page for that application.  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
Subject: .INF file format
Organization: Tyrell Corp.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:02:38 GMT


Has anyone had any success decoding the .INF file format ?  I've got
INF01.ZIP from hobbes, but this info doesn't seem to describe, for
example, the PRCP.INF file. Any help or pointerse would be appreciated.

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Marc Neuberger                                            mjn@sbcs.sunysb.edu
From: me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:50:06 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Fritsch_Wolfgang (pfr@psun2.hmi.de) wrote:

: With the OS/2 2.1 beta installation, it strikes me again that my
: sole reason to get Windows with OS/2 is that I need to access my large
: card file that has been produced by MS-Win. This seems a large waste
: of disk resources (about 8 M).

: So, is there somewhere an OS/2 program that allows access to the
: Win cardfile data files?

: Wolfgang Fritsch
: pfr@psun2.hmi.de

YES !

Get wlo10.zip from hobbes in /pub/os2/all/miscutils.

It contains 'ports' of all the win3 applets. Some work better than others
(and some not at all...) but I often use Write and Notepad as OS/2 programs.
I don't use Cardfile, but I'm sure it worked when I tried it.

Hope this helps.

Paul
From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:16 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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In article <qeDRXB2w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US>, pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes...
>hayesb@yvax.byu.edu writes:
-> 
->> You listening IBM?
-> 
->If you want to talk to IBM, this is the wrong place to do it.  Try
->calling their technical support number.
-> 

	An even worse place to talk to them-you will get their standard 
statement saying that they do not support Beta products, and to post on 
CIS. (doen't do a lot of us much good:-()

LISA

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Subject: IBM OS/2 TCP-IP uses DOS (low) memory? HELP ME PLEASE!!
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:22:47 GMT
Summary: I need telnet under OS/2 and need to run DOS progs larger than 360k?
Keywords: TCP-IP DOS OS/2 memory

I'm in a bind...

I have OS/2 v1.33 (can't use 2.0 due to lack of suitable device drivers)
I have an application that runs on a LAN (IBM Adaptor card) under OS/2
and talks with another application on DOS (can't put the DOS app. on
OS/2 due to lack of device drivers!!)

The OS/2 side needs to open a telnet session with a remote host. I have
IBMs TCP-IP (latest release = 2.1.1 (or thereabouts)).

The problem is that IBMs TCP-IP uses DOS memory for its 2 drivers IFNET
and INET. Each driver uses 100k and another 140k seems to be unavailable
to DOS (even with a fairly cut-down CONFIG.SYS). With 340k out of 640k
unavailable to DOS, I can't run my 360k DOS application.

QUESTIONS:
1) Why is 140k out of 640k unavailable to DOS with even a minimal
   CONFIG.SYS (i.e. no TCP-IP or LAN drivers)? ... Can this be changed?
   (RMSIZE is = 640 in CONFIG.SYS)
2) Can the TCP-IP drivers be persuaded to load high and thus be unavailable
   to DOS (and not use its memory) (I only need telnet from OS/2)?
3) Are there any TCP-IP packages (commercial or not) that either take a
   small chunk of DOS memory or none at all?
4) Are there utilities that will show me which drivers are using how much
   memory?

Please help me...I'm in a maze of twisty passages all alike!!

--alen
Please email to
	alen@crash.cts.com
I'll summarize for the net.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Going back to 16 colors?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:23:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.040603.15867@samba.oit.unc.edu> Edward.Holzwarth@launchpad.unc.edu (edward holzwarth) writes:
>	I am currently using the 1024x768x256 TSENG SVGA drivers... They
>are incredibly slow; is there an easy way to go back to 1024x768x16?  I
>tried running the dspinst program, but it doesnt give me any options of
>any 16 color video modes..   Any help would be appreciated..

Some 16 color Tseng 4000 drivers are available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (the Orchid drivers, notably).  Check file
/pub/os2/00Index for location.  Also, if you are interested in 800x600
in 16 colors, try vga800-1.zip.

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From: apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen)
Subject: Re: OS/2 must ship with systems
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	<1993Jan20.170840.4662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
	<1993Jan23.122218.13244@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:02:54 GMT

>>>>> On 23 Jan 93 12:22:18 GMT, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz said:

>At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just read through most of the
>ads in the December Computer Shopper (mine comes by boat...OK?).
>  
>"* includes MSDOS5 and Windows 3.1!" 
>  
>got pretty boring by the 300th ad. A couple mentioned other OS's being
>available...usually OS/2 was first mentioned as an alternative.
>  
>But why virtually NO vendors will offer OS/2 as an option has me wondering.
>People who use OS/2 almost have to go out and *find* it. I don't blame IBM for
>this completely. The MS lock on the mail-order PC market *is* a virtual
>monopoly. No one else gets a look in. 

>How can OS/2 get vendors to ship it with systems? I don't know what the answer
>is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their software? 

i think this is a great idea; however, i think that if it comes with
os/2 it should also come with a boot manager or dual boot option, since
there are a few pieces of software (most notably CAD stuff -- i use
personal designer by computervision) that won't run under os/2 (or
windows, for that matter) because their dos extender doesn't support
dpmi memory (i've heard it's just a command-line option on the compiler,
but couldn't get anyone at the company who knew anything about the
programmer's side of things...).  so i still have to boot dos if i want
to use that package.  as (if ?) support for os2 grows, then i could run
it under os2.  for now, however, i'm stuck booting dos.

the bottom line is that although i think shipping systems with os2 is a
great idea, there will be people who will need the dos option.  (also,
perhaps people are still afraid of a big new thing like os2 and would be
afraid to have it as their only option...)

just some thoughts...

andy


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:27:31 GMT

In article <enk2.91.728024888@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
>>Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
>>anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
>>in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
>>be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.
>I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY doubt that there is a Macintosh emulator
>for two reasons: hardware and the Macintosh copyrights that they have been,
>well, anal about.  Macintosh-formatted disks, I am pretty sure, cannot be
>read by PC's (although if you have a Mac, PC disks can be read/altered, so
>use a Mac to convert a file to FAT file system and THEN use the Macutils
>program).

The company that makes Mac-in-DOS (or is it Mac-in-PC?), the utility
that reads Macintosh diskettes on a PC, apparently has an OS/2 version
as well.  I'm afraid I don't have more details though.  Please let us
all know what you find out.

As for Macintosh programs running on OS/2, there have been persistent
rumors to that effect (starting a long time ago in Byte, most
prominently).  Due to the Apple/IBM alliance, most observers expect
this to occur in one form or another at some point in the future.

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From: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Running 2.0 and 2.1 on the same machine
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:06:18 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1k6d7gINNmf5@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes...
>I have a machine which has three disk partitions set up.
>One partition contains OS/2 2.0 GA+SP, one contains 
>OS/2 2.1 beta and the third contains my user data.
>Can someone tell me if there will be any complications
>with alternatively running the 2.0 and 2.1 versions?
>Each OS/2 partition has its own Desktop directory, so
>I realize that any Desktop changes made while running
>one version will not be reflected when the other version
>is running.  I'm more concerned about the EA's that
>get stored with the directories in the common partition.
>If I add objects to a folder which resides in the common
>partition, what will happen when I run the other version
>of OS/2.  Will the system get hopelessly confused about
>which objects reside where?  Are there other potential
>configuration problems?  Experiences and comments 
>are welcome.  Thanks.


I currently run OS/2 2.0 GA+SP and OS/2 2.1 beta, booting
one xor the other with no problems.  There are times when
both (primary partitions on different physical drives) 
are available at the same time.  This is very usefull when
I fat finger a CONFIG.SYS file, but I don't do it as a 
rule.  I run HPFS.

/Mike
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: skagos@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Takis Skagos)
Subject: Full screen DOS problems ...
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:57:38 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

I'm having problems with full screen DOS sessions, ever since I installed
the Service Pack, about a month ago.  When I start a full screen
DOS session, or ALT-HOME a window to a full screen session, the characters
displayed are all screwed up.  Usually everything has changed to A's,
G's, and :'s.  If I type "mode 80,25", everything changes to normal, 
but if I switch back to WPS and then back to the DOS session, everything
is screwed up again.  This is *ANNOYING* as it causes me to loose valuable
data.  I have a Trident 8900C.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

  P. Takis Skagos
  (skagos@cs.uregina.ca)
From: woc8r@beech.world (William Owen Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 qwk reader and pkzip
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:08:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department

In article <1993Jan24.4881.39473@dosgate> "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com> writes:
    Cv> Anyone know an OS/2 QWK mail reader that'll work with QWK files that
    Cv> are packed with PKZIP 2.04c?

    Cv> I tried PMQWK, KWQ/2 and MR2 and all three unpacks the QWK files
    Cv> improperly. 

   I think that *no* OS/2 reader will work with PKZip 2.04, period, because
   2.04C is a *DOS* zipper. OS/2 readers will only work with OS/2 zippers.
   An OS/2 version of PKZip 2.04 is said to be in the works.

In an earlier version of MR/2 (don't remember which one, but it was around
1.1), I was using the DOS PKUNZIP to unpack messages.  All I had to do was 
call that particular program (I use pkunzip2 to refer to the OS/2 version,
and pkunzip to refer to the DOS version).  As far as I can tell, all MR/2
does is call the program, so it opens up a DOS window and chugs along. 

But, like I said, this was an older version.

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