HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Is PCMag going to make a OS/2Bench?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:44:01 GMT

In article <BxzDG4.6zE@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
>Anyone know if PC Mag has any plans to develop an OS/2 2.0 specific graphics
>testing program?
>OS2Bench?  We could all share OS2Marks! :)

I expect so.  They had one for OS/2 1.x (which may still be available
via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu).  Considering they just
decided to name OS/2 2.0 "Product of the Year" (or so I'm told), one
would think they'd start getting some utilities, benchmarks, and other
assorted tools out the door.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Help!  PageMaker 3.0 OS/2 Version
From: cvadsbkf@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:33:04 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadsbkf


I'm having trouble with Aldus PageMaker 3.0 OS/2 Version.
Running under OS/2 Version 1.3 has no problems.  After upgrading
to OS/2 Version 2.0, the program will NOT execute are return a
system error code (SYS3175).

Also, I'm running a PS/2 Model 70 w/ math co-processors.  I've 
remove all card and the problem still exists.

If there is a patch or fix, please post it here.  Thanks!

cvadsbkf@csupomona.edu
Edson
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: OS/2 to DOS connection...
From: logic@gacvx2.gac.edu
Date: 21 Nov 92 14:51:37 -0600
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota

hi,
i have a client running DOS 5.0 on his machine.  i, who run OS/2 on my machine
need a program that will allow me to remotely access his machine and run some
character mode DOS programs.  i know that there are a number of programs out
there that will allow this sort of remote access but most are, i believe,
designed for either a DOS to DOS or OS/2 to OS/2 connection.  my question is
whether there are any programs that allow for an OS/2 to DOS connection?  if
it makes any difference my entire hard disk is formatted as HPFS.

anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?

TIA,
al hart

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sdun@isma.demon.co.uk (Stephen Dunne)
Subject: BC++ for OS/2 announced. 
Distribution: world
Organization: International Securities Market Association
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:33:43 +0000

It *looks* bogus.. It's riddled with spelling mistakes..

OK, so Sprint is no longer with us but an offical release should be better :-)

Stephen
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: black icons; what's the fix?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:41:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.143409.15354@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca (Kevin Dorma) writes:
>Yep, black icons.  Trident 1024x256c driver.  I know there is a fix around 
>here someplace 'cause I saw it during the summer.  Is it due to old drivers?
>If so then the new t1k-256.zip driver on hobbes should fix it, right?  If
>not, could someone please tell me what I should get?

Yes, that plus the Service Pak should cure the problem.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: karls@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Karl Schroeder)
Subject: IOPL=NO locks system
Summary: After CSD+new drivers, only IOPL=YES works 
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:50:37 GMT

Do the new ET4000 drivers bundled with the SP require IOPL=YES?  It would
seem so from my experience.  The system locks on load of PM if I change
IOPL to no.  
   This is the only oddity I've found with the full SP installation.  My
problems with lockup of dos and os2 windows may have been due to the fact
that after first installing the SP, I continued using the Trident 16-bit
driver.  Maybe the hardware couldn't cope; but with an ET4000 card, the
graphics fly.
  My system:  486/33, 8 meg, 120 meg IDE. 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc
From: sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Subject: Re: BC++ for OS/2 announced - NOT!
Originator: sidney@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:21:35 GMT

andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg) writes:
>Perhaps the people at Borland should take the fact that everyone seems
>to be holding their collective breaths waiting for BC++ OS/2 and step up
>the effort.

I don't think that the developers on the project could step up any more
without going through the roof :-)

>Perhaps someone
>at Borland could officially confirm or deny whether Borland Pascal 7.0
>will generate OS/2 mode apps.  Or unofficially, for all I care.

Since BP 7.0 is now shipping, there are no secrets there. I'll take a
chance at putting my foot in my mouth (I'm not a BP expert, but I'm
pretty sure this information is correct) and answer: BP 7.0 can
produce programs for real mode DOS, for 16-bit protected mode DOS
(using our royalty-free DPMI DOS extender), and for Windows. It
doesn't produce programs for running under native mode OS/2. The
protected mode DOS apps it produces are compatible with the OS/2 2.0
VDM. For some quirky reason the headers in the protected mode DOS exe
files are marked as being PM OS/2 1.3 executable files, but they
aren't.

 -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com>

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: Help!  PageMaker 3.0 OS/2 Version
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
	<1992Nov18.174310.2374@ftpbox.mot.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:20:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.174310.2374@ftpbox.mot.com> acus02@ems13.corp.mot.com (David McAnally) writes:

 Since Aldus basically stopped  
   upgrading for OS2, I've switched to DeScribe.  I still like Pagemaker, but I  
   tend to stick with companies that will stick with me (and my OS2).

   > 
   > cvadsbkf@csupomona.edu
   > Edson

Me too. I will also stick to companies that stick with me and my OS/2.
But we have to tell Aldus and other companies again and again that we
want OS/2 applications, and that we will not settle for a compromise
with Windows apps running under OS/2. In particular, we need 32-bits
apps when it comes to DTP and other heavy apps. Ask for the
applications, even if you know that it does not exist yet!

Olav Torvund
University of Oslo
Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no

From: kevinl@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Date: 19 Nov 92 08:15 CST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Borland C++ OS/2 Beta
Message-ID: <12900004@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
Nf-ID: #N:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:12900004:000:289
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!kevinl    Nov 19 08:15:00 1992


	I was just wondering if anyone wanted to venture any opinions of the
Borland C++ for OS/2 Beta.

	Does it come with an Object Windows-type library?  Does it come with a
Turbo Vision-type library?  What are some of its strongest features?  Some of
its weakest?

	Thanks for your opinions.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tnfk1@isuvax.iastate.edu (tim green)
Subject: Re: need a good graphics program
Reply-To: tnfk1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:01:45 GMT

In article <4588@drsrv1.hmi.de>, pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca (Kevin Dorma) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for a good graphics program, something for sprucing up graphs and
>>making cool diagrams.   My supervisor does the graphing bit with Gnuplot and
>>Adobe Illustrator on the NeXT.  I think it is overkill, though.  A really good 
>>2D/3D graphing package would be an alternative.  Any suggestions?
>
>I am using AXUM by TriMetric, Seattle, WA, for technical graphs like
>2D and 3D representations of data. It exists only for DOS but runs
>great under OS/2 too. Actually better since OS/2 seems to administer
>memory requirements very well for this program. As they say, better Dos
>than Dos... The support by the company is also exceptionally well, prompt
>reply to inquiries by fax.
>
>Wolfgang Fritsch
>pfr@psun2.hmi.de
>
I have been using Sigmaplot and Plotit (Scientific Prog. Enterprises, Haslett, 
MI (517)339-9859.  Both are DOS packages (sigh) but work under OS/2.
I like Plotit.  It does 2d and 3d, you can adjust anything, and it has a 
pretty good poster utility for overhead transparencies, etc.  The owner, Scott
Eisensmith has a history of really friendly educational discounts.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc
From: brokow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Brokowski)
Subject: Re: BC++ for OS/2 announced - NOT!
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:17:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.211931.18273@borland.com> sidney@borland.com 
(Sidney Markowitz) writes:
>>I got this from a net in Canada:
>>The Professional C and C++ Development System for OS/2
>
>Sorry, folks, but BC++ for OS/2 has not been released. I don't know
>where that announcement came from. It certainly is written in an
>official style, and it is no secret that BC++ for OS/2 is in beta test
>and that we have an Early Experience Program to make beta copies
>available for a fee to some people who did not make it into the free
>beta program before it filled up, but whether or not the text of that
>posting was originally written by anyone at Borland, it is not a
>Borland product release announcement. I will not vouch for the
>accuracy of any detail in that message, and I am not prepared to
>answer questions about them.
>
>[...]

Hey, folks at Borland:  what's the deal here?  I didn't take the
original post with a lot of seriousness to begin with, but why
the sudden panic?  The "I got this from a net in Canada" post
never *said* that it was a release statement.  Did it?  I don't
recall a date mentioned.

  Just wondering where the fire was,

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Tcsh for OS2-2.0
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:34:15 GMT

Someone started a port of a KSH-like shell, but it was alpha last time I
checked...and it crashed OS/2 :-(
Also, I don't think job control was implemented...the main reason I wanted it
(I also wanted cl-history and editing), and ksh scripting... :-)

Meir

 * * * * *  =================== Internet   mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
* * * * * * == Meir I. Green == AmateurPkt N2JPG@W2XO.PA.USA.NOAM
 * * * * *  = mig@columbia.edu= Amateur IP N2JPG@uhm.ampr.org
* * * * * * =================== BC-Goliath green@smtplink.barnard.columbia.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Amipro postscript problem?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:43:33 GMT



Has anyone had problems with Amipro 3.0 generating incorrect
postscript output?   If so, I'd really appreciate Email (or, if you've
generated mountains of the type of output I describe below and have
had no problems, your input might also help...)

I'm running Amipro under OS/2's WINOS2 environment, but I'm posting to
both ms-windows and os2 newsgroups because the real question is
whether there's a problem with Amipro itself or with OS/2's WINOS2
Postscript driver.

Problem:

Sometimes when images created using Amipro's draw mode are
interspersed with text, bad postscript is generated.   Several
postscript printers refuse to print the resulting file and ghostscript
dies with a setlinecap error.  If the image is placed in a file by
itself and printed, 99% of the time it will print ok.  Sometimes the
image is slightly garbled.   I've also had Amipro generate bad
postscript once for a footnote.

Since I use Amipro as my technical document editor, this is a *very*
major problem.

Any ideas?



--Golden
-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Denise Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: PMCOMM 2.0
Date: 16 Nov 92 08:27:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov16.082742.29977
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Can someone tell me how to get the subject parts of these posts in vt100
emulation mode of PMCOMM 2.0 to show up in inverse or with a little color?
Using procomm plus 2.0's vt100 emulation the subject shows up in an orange
inverse color, making it much easier to scan the subjects, and now it's the
same color as text.  Anyone got any ideas?

thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Perf Mon Tools for OS/2?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:42:23 GMT

In article <Bxz2ME.81L@world.std.com> rosmarin@world.std.com (Richard Rosmarin) writes:
>Has any found any good performance monitoring tools for OS/2?
>We are interested in CPU, memory, and disk utilization by process.
>And elapse time of process execution.

IBM's SPM/2 2.0 (System Performance Monitor) looks like a good choice.
Contact IBM directly for more information on it.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc
From: sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Subject: BC++ for OS/2 announced - NOT!
Originator: sidney@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:19:31 GMT

>I got this from a net in Canada:
>The Professional C and C++ Development System for OS/2

Sorry, folks, but BC++ for OS/2 has not been released. I don't know
where that announcement came from. It certainly is written in an
official style, and it is no secret that BC++ for OS/2 is in beta test
and that we have an Early Experience Program to make beta copies
available for a fee to some people who did not make it into the free
beta program before it filled up, but whether or not the text of that
posting was originally written by anyone at Borland, it is not a
Borland product release announcement. I will not vouch for the
accuracy of any detail in that message, and I am not prepared to
answer questions about them.

A copy of the announcement has been sent to the people who do make
official statments at Borland, and any response should come from them.
Because this posting has been quoted so widely so quickly, I just
wanted to start the counter-rumor going as soon as I saw it.

Borland C++ for OS/2 has not yet been released!

Stay tuned for further details, and please don't e-mail me with
requests for additional information that I am not free to disclose.

 -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com>
    [a programmer at Borland, not an official spokesperson]
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:17:04 EST
From: Joe Bruce <JAB156@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: TE/2 performance

I have a high-speed modem, which I keep locked at 38.4Kbps.  I use ProComm
Plus 2.0 for DOS, and I decided to try TE/2 to compare performance.  I tried
downloading a file using Zmodem.  Using ProComm Plus, I got about 1360 cps,
but using TE/2 (even when I set the DLPriority or whatever that setting is to
TIMECRITICAL) I got tons of errors and an effective rate of 380 cps.  Any
ideas?  I have no problem with using ProComm Plus - it's a great package.  It
would be nice to have a more exclusively OS/2 environment, and I would have
expected an OS/2 comm. application to provide throughput similar to a DOS
app., with a lighter load on the system.  If you have any suggestions or
comments, please e-mail me.  Thanks in advance.

Joe
jab156@psuvm.psu.edu  -- Internet
jab156@PSUVM          -- BITNET
From: csci19dc@cl2.cl.uh.edu (461577198 PAREKH, SOHAIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: IOPL=NO locks system
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:32 CST
Organization: University of Houston - Clear Lake
Distribution: world
Reply-To: CSCI19DC@cl.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhcl2.cl.uh.edu
Summary: After CSD+new drivers, only IOPL=YES works
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  

In article <Bxv7wD.4Jv@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, karls@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Karl Schroeder) writes...
>Do the new ET4000 drivers bundled with the SP require IOPL=YES?  It would
>seem so from my experience.  The system locks on load of PM if I change
>IOPL to no.  
>   This is the only oddity I've found with the full SP installation.  My
>problems with lockup of dos and os2 windows may have been due to the fact
>that after first installing the SP, I continued using the Trident 16-bit
>driver.  Maybe the hardware couldn't cope; but with an ET4000 card, the
>graphics fly.
>  My system:  486/33, 8 meg, 120 meg IDE. 

Sorry I cant give you some kind of answer, Karl.

I just wanted to post and say that this also occurs with the WIN31-32BIT GRE 
Beta, at least on my PC Clone.  

I cant specify any application on the line either;ie..."IOPL=SOMEAPP" will
also result in the machine just sitting there locked tight as a drum.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: FTP sites for OS/2 ?
From: cohen@cmu.unige.ch
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:15:26 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

What are the major OS/2 FTP sites ?
Thanks,

Emmanuel-S. Cohen-Laroque
University of Geneva
Switzerland

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Summary on less TRAP E wanted.
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:48:19 GMT

Can someone summarise what caused less to give a trap E?
I was at a friends the other day and gave him the less
that had been working on my system without any problems.
It gives a trap E. Difference between our machines is
that mine is a 486-33 with 17M memory and his is a 386-33
with 8M memory and a ULSI 387. My simms are 9 chip, his
are 3 chip. (All of them, and same speed)
Now there is a small change I recompile less with -m486
using gcc/emx, I'm not sure.
It *was* compiled using gcc/emx using the link386 linker
(-Zomf -Zmt).

Thanks
Erik

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----
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: fireman@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Tracy L. Brooks)
Subject: Trouble with Excel after SP 
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:13:37 GMT

Hi net folks,

	After installing the service pak last week I thought my troubles
would be over.  However, MS Excel refuses to run anymore.  I get a
SYS3175 error, and have to kill it.  Excel worked fine before the SP so
I suspect a bug in it.  Any work arounds or patches for this?

BTW.  This is Excel version 2.1, I have tried reinstalling but still no
luck.  I'm running it on a 386-SX with 6Meg RAM.

Thanks,

Tracy B.

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From: mathelmr@nuscc.nus.sg (Helmer Aslaksen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: start /min doesn't work!
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:28:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: nuscc.1992Nov18.052852.23997
Organization: National University of Singapore

When I type start /min, I get a new window instead of a minimized
icon. I use 4OS2, and have set windows to minimize to the desktop. Any
suggestions? Please respond by e-mail, and I will post a summary.
--
Helmer Aslaksen
Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
Singapore 0511
Republic of Singapore
mathelmr@nuscc.nus.sg
From: unregistered@newcastle.ac.uk (Tony Scholl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Problems w/Describe 3.0 + LaserJet (landscape)
Summary: Landscape printing in 3.0 doesn't work properly
Keywords: Describe
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:24:08 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

I have just bought Describe 3.0 (educational..) When I try to
print a landscape document--even just with printer fonts-- the
output has ugly vertical lines on it. This happens on a LJII+ and
also on a LJIII.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a LJ, Describe or OS/2
problem?  (I'm still using OS/2 2.0 GA.) Any suggestions welcome.

		Thanks, Tony Scholl
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 font metrics wrong?
Keywords: font metrics, AmiPro 3.0, WYSIWYG?
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:33:15 GMT

In article <hess.721296906@rzdspc14> hess@rzdspc14.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess) writes:
>Hi,
>
>i tried to install AmiPro 3.0 on my OS/2 2.0+SP yesterday. After some 
>problems with Help, missing DLLs atc. AmiPro came up finally. I tried
>a simple list with tabs like this
>
>
>article 1			xxx
>article 1			yyy
>article 1 description long	zzz
>
>On screen, it looked like the list above. But it was printd like this:
>
>article 1			xxx
>article 1			yyy
>article 1 description long		zzz
>
>So the font metrics for my deskjet were not the same as on screen.
>Now I wonder: where is the WYSIWYG for AmiPro 3.0? I used
>the TmsRmn font, because TimesRomanPS were printed as Courier
>(some more broken WYSIWYG or what?) on my Deskjet.
>
>I know something about fonts (I guess so), and if AmiPro uses the ATM
>on screen for anything, why does it try to use the printer font
>for printing. There are always problem with metrics if you use
>it this way.
>
>Any ideas why Lotus did this bad job on AmiPro?

Is it necessarily Ami Pro 3.0? I have just loaded 2.0 under Win-OS2
and amn having a number of problems with it. Firstly the background it
uses is white - which means that a white page doesn't show up too well
against it; secondly if I am foolish enough to run it in seamless
mode, when I close Ami Pro the desktop appears briefly, then vanishes,
a totally white screen appears with nothing but the Ami Pro icon on
it. The only thing I can do then is double-click on it, and use
ctrl-ESC when it is up to switch to the desktop.

Worst of all - and if I can't find the answer to this OS/2 may end up
getting removed from my system - the printing is garbage. I have
installed all my extra ATM fonts using OS/2's ATM control, I also did
the same with ATM under full-screen Win-OS2 session. The appearance on
the screen is not good, but just about acceptable, but when I print a
page! I get mysterious extra blank spoace, as you describe, but the
print size is way out and the characters themselves look as if they've
been printed on a particularly bad 9-pin dot matrix printer. Oh, BTW,
I'm using an HP IIP - not exactly an esoteric machine.

Can anyone cast any light on this?

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps