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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Word 1.1 for OS/2 patch available?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:58:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.215647.328@ncsu.edu> harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:
>I seem to recall hearing someone mention a fix from Microsoft for Word 1.1 for
>OS/2. What fixes are available? If so, what is the telephone number to call and
>how do I describe what I want?  (ie. patch fix numbers or some such info.)
>
>I'm specifically having the "menus don't respond" problem.  However, I want
>to fix everything that can be fixed while I'm at it.

You can get a jump on the situation by obtaining the pmwordu.zoo fix,
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  And, while you're
using your patched version of Word, call Microsoft and ask for the
free update called Word 1.1b for OS/2 Presentation Manager.

It may take two requests.  The first time they sent me Word 2.0a for
Windows.  Some sort of message?  No, couldn't be.  :-)

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From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: emacs and ispell
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:17:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Watch the Skies

has anyone gotten ispell to work under os2 - emacs?
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From: sdrumm@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Scott Drumm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:29:45 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

In article <1992Jul21.202940.29904@odin.corp.sgi.com> bradj@proton.corp.sgi.com (Brad Johanson) writes:
>right now however.  They also had some information about their other
>products such as BC++.  I haven't read through it yet, so I don't
>know if they are adds for their OS/2 versions or not.

I'd be interested in the info you have on BC++...I've been looking for a
32-bit OS/2 v2.0 compiler for some time now....
 
						--Scott
From: logic@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:55:05 -0600
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota

In article <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
> A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily 
> committed to supplying applications for OS/2:  The trade rags quoted 
> Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.
> 
> TODAY, the picture looks different!  While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
> OS/2 spreadsheets, Borland is shipping an "upgrade" from Quattro 3.0 to 4.0
> which is _less_compatible_ with OS/2 than the previous version.  Borland
> technical support has no solutions, and they won't even refund the
> "upgrade" price because they "don't support OS/2".  Nothing about upcoming
> Borland OS/2 releases has been in the rags for weeks. 
> 
> It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to 
> OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2.  Either 
> way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.
> 
> Comments, Hard Info, etc. is Welcome
> 
> Andrew S. Brush             | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
> Sverdrup Technology         | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
> NASA LeRC Group             | Brook Park, OH 44142
> "Opinions are Mine, Only"   | (216) 826-6770

Borland C++ for OS/2 is in betatest as we speak..

If we avoid Borland and avoid Microsoft, there's not much left is there?
Hardly seems like a wise move..

al hart

From: glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Glen Robinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:18:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Unix-like MORE for OS/2? (yes, I _did RTFFAQ)
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps

It's not 'more' but I would recommend you take a look at Vern Berg's (sp?)
list.  It is my file viewer of choice on DOS and OS2, and if I had it on
my U**X or realtime machine I'd use it there.

Glen - R
From: M..Scott.Carr@alpha.bgsu.edu (M. Scott Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Stacker for OS/2
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 05:50:07 EST
Organization: The day begins at midnight - Fox BBS

   Has anyone heard when Stacker for OS/2 2.0 will be released? I
called their BBS and read that it was beta testing this summer. I 
haven't heard of a tentative release date, however. It is the only 
thing keeping me in Windows.
 


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From: chk@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Christian Kuhtz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: thruput on the serial device
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:51:49 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg

Hello,

Does anyone know how the enhance the serial thruput ?
I get - by using the latest comdrivers, kernel and the PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO
option - to 1200-1300 ccps. Locked baud rate is 19200 or 38400. Doesn't matter.

But i think, that there must be a chance to get higher. For an 14400
V.32bis connection it is rather slow... 8((

Please write me (at least a cc into my postbox) if you have ANY idea how
to enhance it.

Thx for all replies..

Ciao,
  Christian
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:30:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <4DgeoB3w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> bking@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Barry King) writes:
> 
>Ami Pro is available as an OS/2 app?  That's news to me (good news if 
>it's true).  My understanding was that they were still working on it.  
>And, Lotus just took over AmiPro within the last year...I question this 
>information but will check it out.  123/G, of course, has been around for 
>some time and was a good product, IMHO.  Borland really showed their 
>colours about OS/2 way back when Paradox 3.5 was released for DOS with no 
>plans to bring Paradox OS/2 up to that release level, nor port the 
>Paradox engine for retail distribution.

Well, I don't know about availability in stores.  To be honest, I
haven't seen it, either.  Last year, when Lotus had their "Windows
World Tour" series of advertising seminars, I asked about OS/2
releases.  The salesperson said that all Lotus apps had been ported to
the OS/2 (1.3) platform.  To date, I've seen 1-2-3/G, Freelnace
Graphics, and cc:Mail.  I haven't seen Ami Pro, but I haven't looked
for it, either.

>If you have concrete evidence of the existence of AmiPro at the retail 
>level, please let me know.  In the interim I'll do some checking on my 
>own. 

If you call Lotus, be sure to tell them that you don't care about the
current release.  I believe the newest version (3.0?) has just been
released for Windows, and they may not know when it will be out for
other platforms.

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From: glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us (Glenn Frasier) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 and DOS games: S
Date: 21 Jul 92 02:58:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
Reply-To: glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us (Glenn Frasier) 

                     Entered on 07-20-92 at 13:14:07
                                   *
BO>From: bobo@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Bob O'Donnell)
BO>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
BO>Subject: Re: OS/2 and DOS games: SUMMARY
BO>Date: 19 Jul 1992 19:43:42 GMT
BO>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA

BO>Using the information provided by Steve Smith at the beginning of this
BO>note, I have attempted to get Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf to run under
BO>OS/2.  While getting smooth operation and decent speed in the initial
BO>running of the game, I have one knock-out problem.  When I hole my putt
BO>on the first hole of the course, the machine locks up.  Not just the
BO>session, but the whole machine.  So far the only recourse has been to
BO>power cycle to restart.  This problem occurs regardless of whether sound
BO>is disabled or not.

BO>Does anyone have a suggestion?  Has anyone gotten this game to operate
BO>correctly for them?

I have Jack nicklaus signature golf(the one with the corse desinger) and
all works fine with the sounds turned off.


Glenn Frasier                  The Cutting Edge
Internet:   glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:47:23 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul29.120048.24887@hemlock.cray.com> gjm@cray.com (Gordon Miller) writes:
>In article <62816@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>>I wonder if Borland will sell us the OS/2 version of their C++ compiler
>>cheaply as an upgrade from the Windows version? Say, $50? Am I dreaming?
>
>Well, Borland offered a "cheap" upgrade price for ObjectVision from the
>Windows version so my guess is they will do the same for the compiler.
>But for $50?  I would say you are dreaming.  But then who says dreams
>cannot come true?  One can only hope.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to pay full price.  My only Borland
lanugage products are in the Turbo Pascal series.  personally, if I
hadn't spent so much time learning C (for that OS/2 1.3 job I had last
year), I'd probably just wait for TP/2....


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: heinrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Andrew Heinrich)
Subject: Less 177 Problem was TRAILING Spaces
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:30:09 GMT

Many people pointed out that I could not have spaces in my SET statement.
This I knew, but a few of you pointed out that TRAILING spaces might be
a problem as well.  Sure enough I had SET LESSTERM=ansi-color-3" " I
removed it and all is fine!  Thanks to those who helped.

Mark
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From: dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus, OS/2, RTS
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 14:00:03 EDT
Organization: Delaware Valley Solution Systems, Inc.

Scott@enge1.cc.wm.edu (Scott Fenstermacher) writes:

> I am trying to use Procomm Plus in a DOS window to connect to an IBM 7171 
> and noticed that the RTS lead was not active. There is my problem. I pulled 
> the RTS lead high and everything was OK. There are many other users that are 
> planning to switch to OS/2 and I do not want (or think I should have to) 
> build new cable for all these users. My question is:
> 	Is this a bug in OS/2?

No.  Mine works just fine.  I use it every day without incident.


>  	Is the serial card I am using the problem (It works OK when booted 
> 	from DOS?

Probably not.  It's probably the cable or setup.  Or a bad init state
on the 7171.


> 	Is there a patch for this problem?

It's not a problem with OS/2 2.0 or PCPLUS.




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                 Computing Solutions for Business and Industry
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From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: 4OS2 aliasing at startup?
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Keywords: 4os2, startup, aliases, cheesecake
Organization: R.I.T.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:38:46 GMT

In article <14fn21INNiat@agate.berkeley.edu> boss@soda.berkeley.edu (Brion "Imp" Moss) writes:
>I would like to load an alias file at the start of every 4OS2 session, so
>that every time I open an OS/2 window it starts out with all the aliases
>set up in my alias file.  Also, I'd like to run the SUBST command at the
>start off each 4OS2 session.  Could some kind (of) person tell me how this
>can be done?
>

To load an alias list every time you start a 4os2 session, use the
alias /R (filename) in the startup command file you use to define
your 4os2 sessions. I do this by first telling 4os2 where to look
for my 4START.BTM in a 4OS2.INI in my root. Read about the 4OS2.INI
and the 4START.BTM (or 4START.CMD) in the help sections... its very
useful.
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From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: BORLAND, TRIDENT, & COMPU-SERVE
Summary: Request for information
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:33:49 GMT

Borland-
	I currently use Borland C++ version 3.1. It is, without a
doubt the best C compiler written in the history of humanity.
However it is definatly a dos application (which is fine for my
current work). My question is:Does anyone know of any plans for an
os/2 version and if anyone is familiar with borland, how expensive
do you think the upgrade will be? I got 3.1 on upgrade but I got it
completely free because I had purchased 3.0 only two weeks before
3.1 was released and because I had some problem with the tech
department (couldn't get through) so to make it up to me they didn't
even charge me for shipping. (When you can get ahold of them the
Borland people are very knowledgable and VERY nice).

Trident-
	I downloaded the trident drivers from hobbes and have a
question about the 640*480*256 driver. Why doesn't it show all 256
colors? When I installed it my os/2 windows went right to
640*480*256 without problem and showed all the colors very nicely.
But when I installed it on the os/2 desktop I got 'more' colors but
none of my backgrounds looked right! How do I convince it to work?
Also does anyone know if I can run xga through my trident card (its
a 1 meg model)?

Compu-Serve-
	I'm considering joining compu-serve. I'v asked them to send
me their rates and such to see if its still more expensive then sin.
My question is:What is os/2 support like there? Does ibm have a
forum to discuss os/2 and hand things out? Do other companies have
them?

		Thanks,
				The Jester
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass)
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:58:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.141820.24239@relay.nswc.navy.mil> whiles@nswc.navy.mil writes:
>
>You are correct about the cost of the diskettes themselves.  However, there is
>a tradeoff in the support of the device used to backup the system.  The 3.5
>inch floppy disk drive is standard equipment and is well supported by OS/2.  
>Additionally, I can get Floppies very cheaply at the PX but I cannot get tapes.
>Further, if you go for a real cheap tape drive, you stand a chance that it will
>not be supported at some future date.  I think that many people have had 
>dealings with companies which produce a new piece of hardware and provide drivers
>to integrate it into an operating system.  Later the company goes bottoms up for
>various reasons and now you have the hardware, no support, and no chance at
>getting updates to the drivers (or getting source code to recompile the drivers).
>The obvious argument here is that the tape drive is a one time investment, but you
>will quickly find out that it is not when it comes to updates.  The hardware
>is a one time investment, but the software for future releases of an OS or for
>enhancements is often a cost item.  Additionally, if the support for the backup
>device is not built directly into the operating system, when your system dies,
>you must first rebuilt the complete operating system, install the hardware
>drivers and updates, and then you can restore the information that you lost.
>That is time consuming.  With a standard piece of hardware with driver support
>built into the OS, you only have to get a minimal system up in order to restore
>a system.  Boot with floopy, restore with floppy and get going.  Or just compromise
>and backup the OS partition with floppies and the rest with tapes.
>
>Additionally, if I have 10 386s which cost about 1500.00 each, I am not about
>to spend 500.00 per computer to add a tape drive.  If I maintain all the systems
>identically and the only difference is the user area, I have made life a lot simpler
>with only floppies.
>
>By the way, the backup utility is worth 35.00.  I paid over 70.00 for a backup
>utility from PcTools, so 35.00 makes it extremely attractive regardless of 
>the media which it supports.  
>
>Scott Hiles
>whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil

Yeah, but I'm also not going to spend 1-2 hours per machine to flip
floppies! My time is worth more than that? Also, I do not think tape
drives are $500.

   ---Ken

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From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 4OS2 aliasing at startup?
Keywords: 4os2, startup, aliases, cheesecake
Date: 21 Jul 92 09:53:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In <14fn21INNiat@agate.berkeley.edu> boss@soda.berkeley.edu (Brion "Imp" Moss) writes:

>I would like to load an alias file at the start of every 4OS2 session, so
>that every time I open an OS/2 window it starts out with all the aliases
>set up in my alias file.  Also, I'd like to run the SUBST command at the
>start off each 4OS2 session.  Could some kind (of) person tell me how this
>can be done?

Best way I've found so far to get global aliases loaded at startup is to
create a STARTUP.CMD file in the root directory of your boot drive, with
the following:

\4os2\shralias
alias /r \4os2\aliases

Substitute the appropriate path for the shralias program (supplied with
4OS2) and your alias file.

As for SUBST, I don't believe that this works in OS/2 at all, though it
does work in a VDM.  SUBST, JOIN and APPEND are all potentially
hazardous commands--they lie to the system about what's going on, and
things can get very confused.  Personally, I *really* wish that OS/2 had
hard and soft links, which would remove the need for these wierd DOS
commands, and would provide additional functionality as well.
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From: NLAFLAMM@vma.cc.nd.edu (Nick Laflamme)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: 20 Jul 92 19:45:00 GMT

I used to use a backup program for DOS called Backit which I would love
to see in OS/2.  Since I doubt I'll ever see Backit/2 even if the author
writes it, I'll describe Backit and let you emulate it if you choose.

Backit uses N floppies of identical size and format.  It will prompt you
for more as it needs more.  In other words, if you've used 20 1.44M
floppies until now and suddenly need #21, it'll just ask you for it.

Backit does incremental backups.  These incremental backups ("updates")
both add new or changed files to the backup *and* take note of which
files have been deleted from the hard drive, so that they aren't
restored later with other files you really need to restore.  Backit has
to use a control diskette for this purpose; besides those 21 (or however
many) backup diskettes, there's a control diskette which can be any size
for format you like.

If a file you'd like to restore is on diskette 15, it doesn't make you
load diskettes 1-14 first.  Just the control diskette and then 15.  :-)

Backit doesn't do compression; it was designed to make incremental
backups (updates) quick and painless to do.  But, since I can play
solitaire or Simcity or something while doing my backup, I'm not sure
that's a good design decision for an OS/2 backup program.

Yes, I'd expect EAs to be backed up on an OS/2 backup program.  :-)

Nick
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: GNU file utilities (and groff)
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:56:35 GMT

I have uploaded a new version of the GNU file utilities (now 3.3) for
OS/2 2.0 to ftp-os2 (currently gnufutil.zip in pub/downloads). It fixes
all bugs that have been reported to me. 

In addition the dd program has the direct floppy access stuff back in.
Change: the drives are now accessed via their real names A:, B: and so
on instead of 0:, 1: etc. as it was in the 16-bit version. I have also
added an echo=on option to dd to let you monitor the progress of the
program, such as when accessing floppies. 

I did also want to add access to physical hard disks (like fdisk does)
using names of $1: and $2: and so on, but I can't get this working, is
someone fixes this (source code is included), please send me the fix.

The logical disk (and, if it worked, the physical HD) access in dd
allows to read single sectors or tracks etc. out of media, edit it with
a binary editor, such as BEAV and write it back (try this on floppies
first before doing anything on HD's! And, all on your own risk).

I have also uploaded an OS/2 2.0 version of GNU groff 1.05 to ftp-os2,
in groffexe.zip and groffsrc.zip, for those who care about a troff
clone.

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams