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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: MM3 and OS/2 (and DOS)
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:03:38 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Keywords: MM3 OS/2 DOS

In article <1992Oct8.040322.7410@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> woc8r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (William Owen Carlson) writes:
> In article <kaz.718496172@pv7b8c.vincent.iastate.edu> kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet) writes:
> >I've had this exact same problem in DOS, so it's not really OS/2 specific.
> >I bought Might & Magic III but it is VERY, VERY fast.  Almost unplayable.
> >I have a 486-50 and am running OS/2, but have tried it on my dos partition
> >and have the same problem  Any ideas?
> >
> I've been running MM3 recently under OS/2 2.0 on my 386/40, and it runs
> great!!!  I actually tried running it after dual booting DOS (sound 
> sometimes gets messed up - like when "people" start talking, and it 
> ran MUCH slower.  One thing you might want to do is get into the game,
> load up whatever game you are playing, press TAB or click on the little
> jewel in the bottom of the view screen, and set the delay for a higher 
> number.  I have mine set at 5, and it runs fine.  Maybe your machine
> would need 8 or 9.  
> 
> Good luck!
> 

You could also swap your 486/50 for my 386/40! That would certainly resolve
the problem with your game......:-)
 
Steve


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ssinglet@diana.cair.du.edu (LaserJock)
Subject: Reading/Printing TEX files- how to do it?
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 03:45:15 GMT

Hello, I was hoping to use the GCC compiler for OS/2.  I have
found the gcc2-222 directory on hobbes and would like to get the
documentation for the compiler first.  I ftp'd the gccdoc.zoo
file which is apparently a TexInfo document.  I then ftp'd
gnuinfo and extracted it.  When I go to use it, all I get is a
message to the effect:  can't find top node of dir.  I can get
gnuinfo to run, but only have access to the first menu choice.
Any helpful hints?  I am a tex virgin.  What I'd ultimately like
to do is print out an ascii or postscript (via ghostscript)
version of the relevant info.  Should I look for docs from the
dos version of gcc?  Could someone point me to a good way of
getting a tex/dvi document printed out without using a full-blown tex
implementation...  I'm kind of short on disk space and tex
know-how (so please include lots of detail...:)

Thanks for your kind, helpful words...

  Steve ssinglet@du.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: chris@quay.ie (Christopher Davey)
Subject: Viruses and OS2
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:28:47 GMT
Organization: Quay Financial Software

Is there any virus catching software for OS2 ? At the moment, I am using
the McAfee set of routines, to try and catch the beasties, which seems to 
catch most viruses on the floppy drive, but it doesn't like the hard drive
much ( HPFS ). 

Any thought ? please email them to me here (chris@quay.ie) - a summary will 
be posted. Is there a FAQ on this, if so, where can I pick it up,

Chris


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: 3.5" beta disks-what if A: = 5.25"?
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 08:42:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.174451.13638@ugle.unit.no> hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting) writes:
> > I fiddled with my BIOS - no luck there.  I looked at the cables from my
> > drives in my computer, and they weren't compatible so I couldn't
> > just switch them around.  Am I outta luck?
>If the cables were incompatible in the drive end, perhaps they were
>interchangeable in the other end, at the driver card?
>If both drives ae on the same (flat) cable, you will see that a few of the
>wires are swapped between the two drives.   If you can swap the same
>wires another time between the driver card and the first drive on the cable,

Or just take the cable to a local store that "builds" pc-clones. They should
be able to sell you the appropriate cable for a few dollars.



orville

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:55:55 GMT

In article <1979@acf5.NYU.EDU> checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes:
>cvafyaga@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>I can do these things too, but I still believe that the OS/2 full screen
>sessions are in the correct video mode.  DOS sessions are another story.
>When I switch to a full screen OS/2 session the screen is filled with
>flashing colored boxes, each filled with garbage.  These boxes are
>exactly the same size as the character cells in 80x25 mode (or 80x50 if
>that's what the session was in when I switched away).  There is a cursor
>in the cell that it was in when I switched away.  If I type, garbage
>characters appear.  If I choose a character and type it twice, the same
>garbage character appears twice (actually, this isn't exactly true, for
>each character I type, the printed character alternates between two
>different garbage characters; this may indicate confusion between the
>attribute byte and the character byte).  I make the following

This bug is apparently known.

What I've done to restore the proper screen is open another full
screen OS/2 or DOS session, then switch back (using ALT-ESC or
CTRL-ESC) to the affected session.

I've been told the problem will be fixed in the CSD.

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From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting Minimized Windows folder
Date: 11 Oct 92 05:36:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.gershon.718781760

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>If you decide you later wish to configure your desktop to be more
>WPS-like (rather than having icons minimize to the desktop), you'll
>want to have the Minimized Window Viewer around.

Why is this more WPS-like?

>Incidently, in the office we've pulled the Shredder into its own
>folder within OS/2 System, so it requires a little extra effort to get
>to it. 

Maybe a "trash" folder on the desktop would be a good idea. Drop things
there that you don't want, and then periodically delete them (maybe
even put the shredder into the trash folder?)

                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Need Standard 35 Postscript ATM fonts
Keywords: ATM Postscript Fonts
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:34:16 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct9.160817.15061@csc.ti.com> fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) writes:
>
>Ftp to ftp.cica.indiana.edu; go into /pub/pc/fonts/atm (?) and get
>something like 35fonts.zip.  These are Type 1 fonts that have been
>built from bitmaps, so they aren't going to have the hints that make
>the real Adobe fonts look so nice.  But they will be adequate for
>on-screen previews.  I think these contain only *.pfb and *.pfm files,
>which you need for Windows, even WinOs2.  So for the *.afm files you
>need for OS/2 WPS, you could get the original ones from the Adobe file
>server, or use the pfm2afm program, available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

I'd recommend against converting metrics with pfm2afm.  While the
converted metrics worked fine under OS/2 1.3, and they still work fine
with 1.x apps (like Excel 3.0), they do strange things in the WPS.  I
can not use a converted-metrics-font as title bar text or as icon text
or as menu text - I just get lots of blank space where the text should
be. 


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dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Date: 7 Oct 1992 10:21:40 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

>There has been talk on Fidone that you can just use VVGA.SYS instead
>of VSVGA.SYS (VVGA.SYS is supposed to be only for VGA resolution) and
>that supposedly fixes the probolem.  I thought the problem was gone in
>the beta, but it's come back!  I'll try this fix and post the result 
>here.  BTW, the person who suggested this implied that this would
>probably work only for 800x600x16,  again, I will try it at higher
>resolutions and see if it works.


Well, out of curiosity, i tried this w/ the 
Orchid Proii8.zip drivers.  It didn't work....
In fact, not only was i unable to 
change to full screen from os/2 window,
i couldn't full screen a dos window either.
i'm using the sony 1304 multisync monitor, and 
when i try to full screen the dos window, i can
hear the click where the screen is trying to change
modes but all i see on the screen is just a "flat"
widened garbled dos "windows".  not quite sure   
exactly what happened... maybe someone out there on 
the net will have some answers...

forgot to mention... i'm using 1024X768X256

david shy
shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: OBackup.....I can't find it. Help?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:21:22 GMT

OK....I'been to ftp-os2 (you know what I mean...:-)) and I can NOT find
Obackup.

I read this morning that it is in /pub/uploads/sharebbs/backup0
 
Well......I can see the /pub/uploads/sharebbs......but there isn't a backup0
subdir under it.
 
I have checked these directories:

pub/os2/2.0/archivers, miscutils, sysutils
pub/uploads
pub/uploads/sharebbs
 
No luck. 
 
Can someone tell me where i am going wrong? I don't deal well with
frustration. 
 
Steve

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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:45:20 GMT
 <1992Oct8.170936.13611@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
 <1992Oct8.181330.12816@cbnews.cb.att.com>
 <1992Oct8.205804.18871@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

What is soooo difficult about these shadows ? A shadow is as the name suggests
no independent object but only a reference to an existing object. You can call
it alias if that means more to you. In fact on the Macintosh they are called
alias. The only difference between an OS/2 shadow and a Mac alias is that a
shadow`s name is grey whereas an alias`s name is printed in italics.

The only purpose of a shadow is to save you mouse clicking. You put it where
you would like it i.e. on the desktop or five levels of folders deep in the
drives object. But it`s only a reference to the original. Whatever you do to it
 you do to the original. The only --- logical --- exception is shredding. Since
 you can create a shadow you have to have a means of destroying it.

A program object is a totally different thing. If you like you can think of it
as the WPS equivalent of a short batch file that calls your application.
Example: your converter that plots HPGL graphics on an Epson dot matrix printer
 may be called HPGL2EPS.EXE and you like to start it with a file called
PLOT-IT.BAT. Perhaps PLOT-IT.BAT will give some parameters to HPGL2EPS.EXE too.

A programm object can have a different name (I don`t like these .EXE .COM), it
can have a different icon and different parameters than the programm it starts.

Imagine you have a plot routine that can make graphs from different types of
data files, say ASCII and binary data. You would call it GRAPH datafile -a for
ASCII data and GRAPH datafile -b for binary data. Now you can make 2 program
objects, give them different names, different icons and different parameters.
All you have to do instead of remembering parameters is dropping binary data
on one icon and ASCII data on the other. You can`t do that with shadows.

Now you have four different programs that generate your data. They are in four
different folders on your harddisks. When you work you like to have the folder
you work in filling 87% of your screen. And you would like to have these
graphing icons always at hand. What do you do? ---- You guessed it. You put
the above program objects in one of the four folders and shadow them to the
other three.

Now you have ONE program file, TWO program objects and SIX shadows of the
program objects. And all of them make sense.

Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Need Standard 35 Postscript ATM fonts
Keywords: ATM Postscript Fonts
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:30:34 GMT

In <1992Oct11.173919.9906@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Oct9.160817.15061@csc.ti.com> fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) writes:
>}Ftp to ftp.cica.indiana.edu; go into /pub/pc/fonts/atm (?) and get
>}something like 35fonts.zip.  These are Type 1 fonts that have been
>}built from bitmaps, so they aren't going to have the hints that make
>}the real Adobe fonts look so nice.  But they will be adequate for
>}on-screen previews.  I think these contain only *.pfb and *.pfm files,
>}which you need for Windows, even WinOs2.  So for the *.afm files you
>}need for OS/2 WPS, you could get the original ones from the Adobe file
>}server, or use the pfm2afm program, available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

>Good Luck... cica has locked almost all of its atm fonts due to their
>investigation of copywrited materials...

Well, I don't know why the 35fonts.zip file would be locked; these are
the standard 35 fonts supported by Postscript printers, display
versions only (not printable), and the file itself came with a letter
from Adobe when I got it several years ago.

Hard to believe that Adobe would be suspected of  violating their own
copyright. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: Getting VIEW to display .INFs with double-click
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:34:42 GMT

In article <7549@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>I've gone in to the settings for VIEW.EXE, and added an association for *.INF
>and set the parameters to be %**N (just the name, no extension). When I call
>up an icon view of my local bookshelf directory (which appears on the
>BOOKSHELF environment variable list), and double click on one of the .INF
>files, VIEW complains about "topic not found". I'm sure this is an easy one;
>what am I missing?
>-- 

Yes, I've noted the same problem. Look at the settings menu for the 
"command reference" icon to see the way IBM does it! Howver, the
solution I've gone to is to use the shareware program BOOKSHELF. This
is a nice "utility" to manage .inf files. I got a copy with "tinf28"
which I downloaded from hobbes. I haven't seen it by itself but I
suspect its out there. GIVe it a try.


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From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.editors,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Does VI Exist for OS/2 2.0?
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:44:13 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Jonathan Edwards (jedwards@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
: I write:
: >Elvis isn't complete.  
: 
: The MKS toolkit includes vi...
Which is closer to complete, and a superset in several places.
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CEG, XGA, ATI
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:35:40 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <dmatiske-141092233125@archmacconsultant.architecture.lab.nd.edu> dmatiske@larson.helios.nd.edu (David Matiskella) writes:
>	On XGA, how programable is the coprocessor?

Last I heard (1.5 years ago, at PC Expo '91) the XGA was fully
programmable.  It had its own memory for code and data and was general
enough to run small applications, even.  Unlike the 8514/a which had a
fixed number of non-programmable functions, the XGA will allow for as
many functions as will fit in its memory.  I believe unused screen-RAM
can be used for XGA program storage.



-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hofmann@bordeaux.informatik.uni-kl.de (Bernd Hofmann)
Subject: ET4000 & Non-interlaced again 
Reply-To: hofmann@bordeaux.informatik.uni-kl.de (Bernd Hofmann)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:29:13 GMT

My ET4000 Cards support 1024x768 non-interlaced with 60Hz refresh.
It seems to me that OS/2 runs sometimes interlaced sometimes
non-interlaced, but no idea why. The svgadata.pmi file 
contains in the MODEINFO part interlaced = 0 at 1024x768x16.
Since that is only an info, I thinks it's not usefull to 
change this switch. 
Does anybody know how to tell the ET4000 to use always 
non-interlace at 1024x768. What has to be changed in the
svgadata.pmi file or in which environment I have to run
the SVGA ON command.
Thanks for your help !

+-------------------------------------------------------+
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| University of Kaiserslautern                          |
| phone: (+49) 631 205 2626                             |
| email: pri_h2@poker (intern)                          |
| email: hofmann@bordeaux.informatik.uni-kl.de (extern) |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chris Webster)
Subject: Mathcad under winos2
Originator: cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:18:50 EDT

I just purchased a copy of mathcad.  A week or two, someone posted an 
article about a particular trick to get it to run under winos2; I believe
it had something to do with setting something to -1.  Anyway, the
article has scrolled, so could someone please send me a copy of it?
Thanks.
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Information about video drivers for OS/2 2.0...
Date: 11 Oct 1992 05:26:19 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

>Tseng ET4000 drivers will be in the Service Pack, they will be 32-bit,
>256 colour drivers for VGA, SVGA, and 1024X768.
>

yyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

horray for ibm.

now, don't anyone break the happy bubble by telling me something else.

David Shy
shyguy@ocf

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
Subject: Re: Need Standard 35 Postscript ATM fonts
Keywords: ATM Postscript Fonts
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 02:02:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.160817.15061@csc.ti.com> fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) writes:
>on-screen previews.  I think these contain only *.pfb and *.pfm files,
>which you need for Windows, even WinOs2.  So for the *.afm files you
>need for OS/2 WPS, you could get the original ones from the Adobe file
>server, or use the pfm2afm program, available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

Can you post some more info on this Adobe file server? I've never
heard of it.

-- 
Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2nd mono monitor in OS/2
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:00:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: networx.1992Oct7.210038.4710
Organization: NetWorx
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


I was looking through the index here, and noticed article 29
"2 monitors in OS/2".  I'm using the TIN unix utility to read this,
and says something like "nnnn  no such article".  Is it gone?
Too old?  Can anyone summarize the discussion there?

I have a server program running at all times on my OS/2 2.0 machine,
and I'd like it to continuously display it's status on my old mono
card.  From trivial command line testing, (MODE command), it appears
that the OS will only write to the display that has the focus.  The
other process will be suspended until the focus returns to it.

Is this correct?  Can I get aroundd this programatically
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:02:04 EDT
From: <JAL142@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Starting a program maximized

How do I start a program so that it begins in a maximized window?  I'm using
TE/2 and it starts in a window with scroll bars...it is annoying to keep having
to click the maximize button.  How do I set up the program or OS/2 to run TE/2
maximized without having to do it manually each time I run it?

Thanks in advance,
Julian Laxton
(JAL142@psuvm.psu.edu)